I'm happy to report that my team and I are still on Kadesh, currently packing our stuff to move it from base to Flotila, especially Ontores project equipment, according to received evacuation order. We've also just processed data from the first probe launched, but I'm unsure if this will be of use since we're leaving Kadesh for an uncertain term. Here it is:
We're still analyzing data to receive proper dependency curves of temperature and pressure from attitude, but we can for sure state that its thermosphere starts at around 1200 kilometers, where first high-speed gas particles were detected by probe equipment, and mesosphere is around 600-700 kilometers above surface, where descending capsule started to feel first atmospheric kicks. Then the contact with it was lost due gas plasma interrupting any comms until last layer that we're sure of was reached - the troposphere. The last descend speed was killed and parachutes were deployed, and we had enough time to gather good readings of lower atmosphere.
Two major discoveries were made: First is that close to surface temperatures are much lower than expected, probably because of reverse greenhouse effect, since Palmyra never encountered anything close to sunlight, except accretion disk shine from black hole that it orbits. And the second is that Palmyra's lower atmosphere is primarily composed of nitrogen (91.2%), Helium (4.65%), hydrogen (1.2%). The rest are trace amounts of numerous hydrocarbons like methane, ethane, propane and other gases like oxygen and argon on higher attitudes. There are little to no traces of carbon dioxide though (beyond nitrogen gases are probably solidified in a form of snow). Such amount of noble gas can be explained by Palmyra's cold but strong (in terms of gravity) nature. So where's light particles are usually ionizing and escaping gravitational pull because of solar wind, on Palmyra they're having no sources to get the energy from. We have no idea on how much of this helium is a helium-3 isotope, but having easily extractable noble gas is already an awesome proposition.
Right after the vessel deployment on the ground, sensitive equipment received some seismic kicks from below, proving that planet's core is indeed active, though cold vastness of space around interrupts CO2 generation in enough rates to heat things up.
Pressure reading on surface level stayed around 70,9 KPa, which is 0,7 of normal atmospheric pressure.
The rest of the mission was exploring the plateau trough constant blizzard, which sometimes made the rover unreachable and seriously affected video feed. More precise landing sights for the next crafts were spotted and we tried to reach the mentioned in previous reports canyon, but right after the second energy spike was spotted by relay network, the probe went silent. Palmyra's magnetosphere wasn't able to handle something that strong and rover was presumably burnt by the radiation it could not sustain for long.
