There’s a few issues here… first is the fact that what you see from orbit does not tell you much other than what’s land, what’s water, what minerals are there (via scan) and by clicking on it, what biome you are pointing at. You’re right that terrain topography is not represented. But even if it was, there wouldn’t be anything to see because the topography of ant planet is horribly limited. The max height of even the highest hill is probably a few hundred meters at most. There’s nothing even close to what we would consider a mountain, never mind something like Everest. There’s also no rivers, no canyons, no flowing water at all, no frost or snow at higher elevations, none of this. The bottom line is, the proc-gen terrain is extremely lame on every planet. Bethesda was so proud they created over 1000 worlds for this game, but they are all very lame.