Blorgop

Great info! Yes, this does make the orbital scanner pretty misleading. I drove my rover over large swaths of the red area above and landed separate craft in 3 distinct places and came up empty handed every time. Having driven the rover around some more I finally found some ore (about 8%) in the Highlands along one of the craters -- not a convenient landing site. This seems to confirm my experience at least with respect to this particular region. All the nice, convenient landing sites are dry. Might have to build a craft that can land sideways.. I have no memory of ever doing this (as far as I know, I landed a scanner-equipped rover on the surface for the first time), but this is also a save that I resurrected from years ago, so it's possible that back then I put a scanner on a craft that landed in the Midlands and since returned to Kerbin (and ended up setting myself up for confusion years later). I drove around some more, and after crossing the boundary into the Highlands, the "Run Analysis" button did finally appear.

Thanks. I think what was confusing me was the fact that the "Run Analysis" button never showed up (which the wiki said there would be). I guess it doesn't appear if the ore concentration is 0%.

I landed a wheeled rover on the surface of the Mun, and I have a Surface Scanning Module attached to the front of it. I landed in an area that my orbital scanner showed as being the richest area on the Mun, but I've been driving this thing around for an hour and it always shows "Ore [Surf]: 0%". I never saw any "Run Analysis" button appear. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? I'm running KSP 1.3.1, Windows 10, if that makes any difference. My location: Screenshot of the rover (I know, it looks kind of silly):