Additional words that can help you with your story writing

Color description:

smoky – light grey in color

sooty – black or dusky in color
olive – dark yellowish green in color
nut-brown – medium brown in color
lily-white – pure white
electric blue – very bright blue
emerald – bright green in color

Clouds:
 Fluffy balls of cotton
 Puffs of white magic
 White velvety clouds

How you felt:

 On top of the world literally!
 Happy as a clam
 Shell shocked
 In awe

What you observed on the planet:

 golden sand dunes rose and fell

 golden dunes were as the scales upon a great dragon's spine

 the mountain lay in the distance like a ridiculous green camel

hump
  each bald mountain top shone like a jewel

wind storm whips orange dust into the sky

a great red desert

expanse of unwelcoming grey stretching far and wide

chalky white ribbon of cliffs