

You can then select the individual bits of exploration data that you wish to sell, but you must be at least 20 or more lightyears from where you collected the data in order to claim your cash.Ī final note on this introduction to Exploration. To sell your data, head to a station far enough away, and select Universal Cartographics from the Station Services section of the interface. You'll get a feel for this with practise.

Note that you don't have to activate your scanner in order for this process to begin, and how close you need to be to initiate the scan depends on the mass of the object in question. When the scan's finished, you'll log the details of the object. Next, approach each Unknown celestial body and you'll see a message in the bottom left-hand of your HUD that says 'Scanning'.

Once you've done this, you'll see items marked as Unknown in your left-hand cockpit panel. Have a mooch around the system and perform multiple scans if you're in a particularly large area of space. Once you reach the system, activate your Discovery Scanner (see our UI introduction for more details) in order to log details of all the celestial bodies within approximately 500LS of your current location. Ideally, you want to find systems with elements that are marked as Unknown. To get started with the basics of this profession, fit your ship with a Discovery Scanner, then use the maps in-game. Next, you actually scan the individual elements in finer detail. First of all, you discover the very broad details of a system, such as the planets, stars, and asteroid fields within it. There are two stages to exploration in the game. Watch on YouTube Make money from explorationĮxploration is sadly not quite as profitable as we were hoping for in Elite Dangerous, but there are some decent credits to be made if you can't resist the siren-song of deep space.
