Search for Probing Scanning signatures to find help on the internet . Ingame you can learn about exploring from the Career Agents obvious from the Exploration guy , but also from the Business guy . They will also give you ships and modules to start with you want to replace civilian modules after the agent mission with real ones . In the help menu F 12 i think you can also find videos from the Flight Academy , some of them explain scanning probing , others hacking the minigame to get to the loot once you found it . EDIT To actually answer your question Drop a probe means to launch scanner probes from your probe launcher module by activating it , putting the scanner probes in space visible on dscan . <| sep |> Truly a director who is very good at what he does and is very aware of what he shouldn ' t !