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Could be Samorost?
YES
I have been wondering for about seven years. Thanks!
(the idiotic thing is that I passed over this while looking for it because the graphics looked too realistic)
And, holy shit, it's made by the same guys that made Machinarium. Radical!
Edited by mszegedy
Glad I could help. Wasn't sure myself, but it was the only game where I could remember what you described in the intro (the ship/planet/meteor crashing into a planet).
A long time ago, by father showed me a point-and-click escape game, the Crimson Room (which one of his students had emailed him a link to). We found it too hard, so he produced another link, this time to a point-and-click adventure. All I remember of this is the photo-collage graphics, the storyline (your spaceship, which seems to be a planet itself, if I remember correctly, crash-lands on this temperate planet (looking sort of like The Phantom Planet), and needs to get back to his ship or something (perhaps he was going to pilot the planet? I vaguely remember the planet doing something at the end)), and two scenes (one in which there is a large screen with tons of cattle on it, and the edge of a cliff to the left, and another one with an elevator you can operate). I would very much like to play this again, if only for the maquette-like graphics. Any help is appreciated!