Forum Overview :: Mass Effect 2 :: PS the best part is that this will save you a lot of time in planet scans.

[quote name="Jhoh Creexul (custom software)"]You can just fire at any spike in the mineral readings instead of trying to find the dead center of a mineral deposit. Also, the best way to scan is find a system that has a fuel depot, scan a planet and fire all of your probes into it (if there are enough minerals to justify it, it's not worth it to fire into nothing), then go to the fuel depot and either do it more with the rest of the planets in the system or just move on. It's not a good idea to go to some remote system where nothing is happening to strip mine it, not until you've exhausted the planets that are close to the fuel depots, so just wait until later in the game.[/quote]