Mongol spacecraft do tend to have a rather high center of gravity, but they land with sufficient velocity to imbed the landing spire of their spear-like ships deep into the crust for stability and dramatic effect.
Ha! Mongols don’t need spacecrafts to reach the Moon!
To paraphrase one of my favorite historians - Every sweeping historical generalization has a "probably doesn't apply to the Monguls" exception. If you don't expect your professor to waste chalk writing this over and over, then he won't grade you down for omitting it from your test answers and term paper.
This is a great perspective on pedantry
I think the fact that they were coming out of rather than heading into the steppe was a major factor.
Familiar territory / home ground, also well-practiced in foraging within that type of terrain.
Yes, this is why they did a similar thing with Ukraine (Feb/everything is frozen - for those who haven't been in frozen countries in the Winter, the earth/ground/dirt (pick your word) becomes hard like cement)).