Toxic Planet
This planet is inconceivably beautiful, but I do not wish that you were here. You said, my love, that you'd read my reports but we both know that you won't. They're dull and dry, and quite frankly I'd be startled if anyone other than my colleagues at the Academy of Planetary Science managed to struggle through them. But what we've discovered here is fascinating, and I'd love to share them with you, if I may, in slightly more straightforward nonscientific language. Let me start with the mundane details. This planet, designated DK-3270b, is one of the few extrasolar planets we have yet found with abunant macroscopic life, and the first humanity has actually set out to explore. We arrived almost exactly one planetary year ago, which is about the same as a year and a half on Earth, and spent the first weeks establishing our habitat. There have been challenges, even tragedies, but we are finally able to begin the task of cataloguing the lfe we found here.