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===The map and the cone===

The d-scan search begins at your ship and extends out in the shape of a cone. Each scan will produce a report listing the items that it has located. The list will give you only the names and types of the items; not their distance, or coordinates, or any other data.

As explained below, you can set the range and width of the cone. The widest search is a sphere. Its report will list any items found anywhere around your ship - but it will not give any directional information. The smallest search is a narrow cone. Its report will list far fewer items than the widest search, but you will know that they lie in the direction of the cone. (This is why it is called a ''directional'' scan.) If the scan is at all narrow, then you have to aim it in the direction that you want to scan.

{{Note box|Regardless of the ship's orientation, the scan cone always points in the direction of '''your camera'''.}}

You can change the cone's <span style="color:#53B14E">viewing orientation ''in the d-scan window''</span> by left-click dragging to rotate the view and right-click dragging to move the view back and forth. Again, note that this does not aim the scanner, but only changes the display that you see in the window.

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 ===The map and the cone===
+The d-scan search begins at your ship and extends out in the shape of a cone. Each scan will produce a report listing the items that it has located. The list will give you only the names and types of the items; not their distance, or coordinates, or any other data.
+As explained below, you can set the range and width of the cone. The widest search is a sphere. Its report will list any items found anywhere around your ship - but it will not give any directional information. The smallest search is a narrow cone. Its report will list far fewer items than the widest search, but you will know that they lie in the direction of the cone. (This is why it is called a ''directional'' scan.) If the scan is at all narrow, then you have to aim it in the direction that you want to scan.
 {{Note box|Regardless of the ship's orientation, the scan cone always points in the direction of '''your camera'''.}}
 You can change the cone's <span style="color:#53B14E">viewing orientation ''in the d-scan window''</span> by left-click dragging to rotate the view and right-click dragging to move the view back and forth. Again, note that this does not aim the scanner, but only changes the display that you see in the window.