Geological POI

[Setu]

Hi, returned to Elite after 3 years out. Scanned an interesting planet, which has 3 geological POIs, but they don't appear either on the HUD or in the panels as targets I can fly to.
Have forgotten something, or has something changed?
I don't have Odyssey - I am interested in exploring, not first person shooters.

 

[Baka_Survivior]

For Geological and exobiology signals you use a full surface scanner to get a heat map of the planet surface and use the highlighted areas to find the POI's.

 

[Greasetrap42]

The Detailed Surface Scanner (DSS). Shoot the probes, scan the planet to 100%. The planet will show a "heatmap"... it is just a blue overlay that shows where items might be. The variations in blue don't mean anything, its just differences in terrain. When in the DSS mode you can toggle the filter to show the different items to be displayed. (ex: Fumeroles, Vents, Bacteria, All) Select the filter you are interested in. When you go down to the planet surface you lose access to the blue overlay. You must be in supercruise to see it (?) or to change the filter. You gotta fly bak up again to gain access to this.

 

[Setu]

Ah, great thanks, that makes sense.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

The variations in blue don't mean anything, its just differences in terrain.

Though: the differences in terrain might mean something when it comes to whether the thing you're looking for can be found. So if you land in one shade of blue (or possibly green depending on how you perceive colour) and don't find anything after a few minutes, try taking off again and moving to one of the others.

Most obvious on the rare tenuous-atmosphere rocky ice worlds - the rock/ice boundary can show up as a change in shade of blue, and any specific plant will definitely only be on one side or the other of that boundary.

 

[Setu]

OK gotcha. Change in blue really means change in underlying terrain, but different features are in found in different terrains, so change of colour may or may not be significant. Thanks. Presumably I could use filters then to see any distribution of different features.