In a recent game, I was performing Geosurveys and had Mars come up as empty. No big deal, happens a lot. But then nearly every other body in Sol came up empty.
Since I had no where for my Geo Team to go, and I was just spreading out of Sol, I put them on Mars to see what happened. They started finding TN minerals and after a while ended up find a huge amount of minerals of almost every type. For most of them it was 1M+ minerals generally at .1 concentration.
To test it out, I ended up surveying Mercury, Venus, Luna, Mars, and Triton, all of which were originally scanned as empty by a ship and ended up find lots of low concentration minerals on each.
Is this an expected result of the Geo Survey mechanics? That a Geo Team on a body scanned as empty of TN minerals can find minerals? Or is it a bug/exploit?
clement