Darkness, streaming lights, and mild turbulence. The only few things I've experienced when I'm not frozen in the bed on my ship. You got woken up every few days to stretch, and if the ship has detected any problems. Space travel is boring but the destination is the adventure. It’s been a long time coming to get to this planet that started to only broadcast repeat transmissions. We were aware that Earth inhabitants hadn’t quite figured out Faster than Light (FTL) travel, but they weren’t in any danger for their survival so we weren’t trying to spend the time, money, or resources to get out here unless there was something for us to recover. Radio travel times have been a problem among our Stellenet Archival System. As archaeologist Godric Aramis, my job isn’t to communicate with these planets, it is to document what is happening, or more specifically, what is happening around the Milky Way Galaxy's habitable planets. 
We have had reports of other planets making drastic changes, but it’s usually just a rut, they get out, we monitor the signals and then move on. If a planet stops broadcasting their internet transmissions (whether or not they are aware, sometimes we just happen to grab on to the transmissions from satellites) we typically get concerned. Earth is the exception, after we got through the most recent encrypted files we caught on to a global disturbance among the people themselves. So right now, my primary objective to find some answers. Hopefully I’m not too late when I hit the surface. Currently earth is a dot, and I’m passing by Planet 9 as earthlings have called it, it’s got some pull on the ship, but I haven’t quite started slowing down yet, so it’s not taking me in. I'm just going to power through and try to get to Earth as fast as possible.
After orbiting this big blue swirling marble for a few hours I find the center of the transmission source. It is near the coast of a large chunk of land. I go in to land, and I am really excited about getting into this terrestrial planet and having a look around. The atmosphere is a little thicker than I expected, I'm going through large fluffy clouds and water is streaming of my canopy, the ship is really hot but all is well and I expect this to be a breeze.
I traveled along a great valley, everything is deep shades of green and blue, and occasionally spots of brown. Hopefully I can explore some of this before I venture on to the next planet. Honestly, that’s the best part about this job, the views of these different landscapes make it all worthwhile. There are only a few hundred of us who are qualified to travel this far on our own, and man are we grateful for this experience.
I’ve officially landed, and I’m searching for the transmission tower, hopefully this goes smoothly and I don’t lose much time trying to pinpoint the location. Surprisingly there is no one here as far as I can see, typically you find a populated area in a few hours of searching, sometimes it's because the planet is trying to shoot you of the sky. I have seen vehicles, buildings, and houses, and everything is pretty much grown over. The plants are more powerful than I expected, but I suppose that’s good; with the amount of water here it makes sense that the vegetation would be so green and lush. I’ve seen animals here and there, although I have no idea what any of them are, they are all completely new to me. I’ve tried documenting them, but they are far and few between. My only successful image was of this, what I believe to be, snake.
I actually managed to get into one of cached websites of Earth's, called “Wikipedia” and so far it has been a great source documenting and identifying things on this planet. It’s helpful, and I wish I found it before I started here. I may go back and link some things on this website to my findings there.