I have just discovered that my Advanced Discovery Scanner includes a Detailed Surface Scanner.
I have a FAS kitted for Data Salvage Missions with a Collector Limpet Controller, an 8 T Cargo Rack, and an ADS.
So I'm on a Mission to Salvage 4 Data Canisters, I enter the target system and hit the ADS to get the target location and then check the system in the Left Hand Panel. Most of the Planets and Moons come up as "Unexplored." My target Moon is 4 A. Okay so I use the System map to lock onto the 4th Planet (Unexplored) and fly over.
As I get close, I see "Scanning" at the bottom left of the HUD. "That's funny." I think "I don't have a DSS on this ship." (Who would put a DSS on a FAS?) Anyway, the scan completes and the Planet's details come up. So, having a bit of Explorer OCD, I lock on and Scan all the Moons orbiting the Planet.
Now I've got Moon 4 A and I go and do the Salvage pick-up, while being harassed by NPCs - which is why I use my FAS rather than my Python for these Missions. After I complete the Mission and deliver the Canisters I check with Universal Cartogaphics and I can sell the data on the Planet and Moons!
So the Scans were not an artifact of the Nav Beacon, which I didn't go to anyway, because you can't sell the info you pick up at a Nav Beacon.
So, my ADS now includes a DSS. I don't know about anyone else, but I never knew that before.
Now I'm going to take the DSS out of my Asp-X and head out of the bubble and see if the same applies out in the Deep Dark.
I have a FAS kitted for Data Salvage Missions with a Collector Limpet Controller, an 8 T Cargo Rack, and an ADS.
So I'm on a Mission to Salvage 4 Data Canisters, I enter the target system and hit the ADS to get the target location and then check the system in the Left Hand Panel. Most of the Planets and Moons come up as "Unexplored." My target Moon is 4 A. Okay so I use the System map to lock onto the 4th Planet (Unexplored) and fly over.
As I get close, I see "Scanning" at the bottom left of the HUD. "That's funny." I think "I don't have a DSS on this ship." (Who would put a DSS on a FAS?) Anyway, the scan completes and the Planet's details come up. So, having a bit of Explorer OCD, I lock on and Scan all the Moons orbiting the Planet.
Now I've got Moon 4 A and I go and do the Salvage pick-up, while being harassed by NPCs - which is why I use my FAS rather than my Python for these Missions. After I complete the Mission and deliver the Canisters I check with Universal Cartogaphics and I can sell the data on the Planet and Moons!
So the Scans were not an artifact of the Nav Beacon, which I didn't go to anyway, because you can't sell the info you pick up at a Nav Beacon.
So, my ADS now includes a DSS. I don't know about anyone else, but I never knew that before.
Now I'm going to take the DSS out of my Asp-X and head out of the bubble and see if the same applies out in the Deep Dark.
