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With regard to your initial posting...Maybe it's part of the Derelicts signal...does that make any sense even?

The piece of scrap on fire looks to be part of this (same colour scheme): [img]http://www.prometheus-movie.com/uploads/prometheus_moviepic.jpg[/img] Check out the detailing on the right hand side; especially the black and yellow stripes - they match!

Looks like the Nostromo and Prometheus land on the outer-most moon/planetoid from the pic seen from Alien of LV-426's skyline. Looks like Prometheus backs this up by having the system, in order, go - Gas giant with rings, brown moon 1, white moon, brown moon 2 aka LV-426.

wow, I just realized, If memory serves correctly LV-426 was/is a ringed planet.

Nope sparks, Acheron LV-426 was one of the moons/planetoids in orbit around the ringed planet supposedly called "Calpamos" (source - [url=http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/LV-426]Xenopedia[/url]). As shown by the image BM has posted from Alien showing the ringed planet in LV-426's skyline.

Simple answer to that BM, the Prometheus doesn't approach a white planet, it approaches a cloudy planet (recall the end of Aliens).

Yup, Snorkelbottom (great username btw) is right. Acheron was a moon orbiting the ringed giant

Not necessarily... Look at it this way - Earth, from orbit - on a clear day (weather wise) looks green and blue, but on a cloudy day is... well, covered with clouds.

Another example... Mars - on a clear day all of its features can easily be seen, but when a sandstorm hits it just looks like an orange (yes orange, NASA have admitted to "Redding" up images of Mars) ball of dust. Also in Aliens the air was only completely breathable near the processor (Newts parents wearing oxygen masks before entering the derelict).

ok, it was a moon of LV-426, and that seems actually even more correct if memory serves...and makes better sense, thanks for correcting me there "Snorky".

Biomechanic... You are comparing temperatures and conditions which are for our intents and purposes, partial to events that happened 30 years apart form each other at least. In Aliens, the atmospheric processors are Only set up on Lv-426 between the time Ripley surives her INITIAL battle with the creature and 57 years later when she is "picked up buy the company". Van Luin tells Ripley it takes "decades". What they call "A Shake and Bake Colony" !!! If this is all happening 30 years before Ripley is born even, than there are No Atmospheric processors on LV-426 !!!

they look quite different indeed ... both are barren even if the LV426 both from aliens and fron alien did look much more rough ....vulcanic rocks for sure and vulcanic activity . Here everything look ...stable ...cold ... and in a planet so small i dont think you can have two so different environments .

That flash if very interesting. I don't know what you guys think, but it looks as if there is some sort of hurricane going on. When the "Prometheus" decends onto the planet, the clouds still seem to have a circular motion to them, but the ship is covering up the center of the storm. Also notice that when the ship is decending into the mountains, all the mountains are covered with snow.. then we have dry barren land. And the size of the sun is relativley small in the prometheus movie, compared to LV-426. So those are a few things I noted.. So I don't think in the first picture posted, that the planet is related to LV-426.