What does interplanetary travel have to do with lights once they are in our atmosphere? I don't need lights when I'm driving across the salt flats in the middle of the day well above the ton, but once it gets dark and I'm driving on congested roads I turn on my lights.
Even our own military have heat sensing cameras and night scopes which require no light.........
You don't think that a species able to traverse the universe wouldn't have at least mastered the concept of night vision goggles?...........LO!