Corrected entry: When the ship first launches, they switch on the headlights. They use a special device to see outside the ship, and the ship has no windows, so why does the ship have lights?
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Correction: Because the ship uses cameras, and the cameras probably use visible light to function. They were first entering water and you can see the light projected from the headlights light up the water around them and on their screens, that light is what the cameras pick up.
The lights and cameras aren't going to be made from unobtainium, so they'd melt not long after the mission starts, and provide a point of vulnerability for the magma to enter the ship.
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