I am having a really hard time finding resources. I repurposed the lander grid into an exploration vehicle (mainly bc it had all the stuff needed & an ore detector) and the ore detector has not revealed anything under the surface of the planet. At all. The only ores that I can find in rocks are nickel and magnesium. I could not find cobalt anywhere on the planet, meaning that progression in this world was basically impossible. It's not like I didn't explore, I went from one pole to the other. What am I doing wrong?

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Do these maps contain asteriods in space?