They had just started to wave in appreciation of the landing skills.
When someone navigates, even if with millions of lines of computer code helping the gyro-finder, to the exact parking spot outside their favourite cafe on the planet Ganoz-1, after a ninety million mile trip, we applaud.
Or we might.
The planet has not been discovered yet as it, a little like the mythical “Brigadoon”, only appears once in a while. In fact, the rest of the time it is just not there.
During what Ganozians know as the Quiet Period, they can neither leave nor might anyone arrive on their paradise of a planet.
Just goes to show….timing is everything!