I don't think this has been suggested before...When surveying a sector with hundreds of asteroids, it's cumbersome to target each one to get a temperature reading. Instead, you could switch on 'infrared mode,' and then hot asteroids would glow if they're over 10K.

This would probably be best implemented as a new type of asteroid scanner. Right now 'firing' your scanner does nothing but show a little animation; instead, it could turn on and off infrared mode. From what I can see, it wouldn't take a lot of work on the engine to implement.

Nice idea.

Cool.

this has been suggested before but still congrats for the great idea

What I'd like to see is when you hit the fire button for the scanner, for it to actually scan and update the target asteroid data, and not just do some odd animation. Currently, the scan interval stays the same, regardless of how many times you hit the button. You can only reset it by de-selecting the roid and re-selecting it, as it is right now.