Tenth Contact
Novelette 11,543 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"Red roses over black ice. Harpone bounded across a crater. He’d tumbled, leapt, and skidded over more of Ganymede than any man alive. He would never match the service record of the dead kid, though. Harpone’s crewmates—Audax the intellectual and Consilience the administrator—they both insisted on all due honors."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Asimov's, where the author gets the click.