This becomes problematic in virtual conversations because the massive mental resources that would ordinarily be occupied with scanning your face have nothing to scan, so they imagine it.

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They can use scanning tools -- such as the ISS Internet Scanner -- to scan for it.

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Now the team needed to get the kit and the scanning team down into the heart of Erte Ale and get a scan from within the crater itself.

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