I'm not the brightest bulb in the pack, but I just put 2 and 2 together and realized that I've only been flying these planetary missions for the last 2-3 weeks. Before that it was orbital outpost missions and mining, or flying out to Colonia. And before that I've barely played for months and months and almost never did missions. It's no wonder I'm just really noticing these problems that only seem to manifest themselves while landing on dark sides of planets.