{"id":21,"date":"2012-06-22T15:10:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T20:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/physics.cos.ucf.edu\/microgravity\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2022-07-25T18:46:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:46:45","slug":"core","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/physics\/microgravity\/core\/","title":{"rendered":"CORE"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Collection of Regolith Experiment (CORE) is a suborbital experiment that uses the hardware and technology previously designed and tested from earlier dusty regolith impact experiment (COLLIDE, Colwell and Taylor 1999; COLLIDE-2, Colwell 2003). These experiments have been modified to include a collector mechanism for acquiring samples of loose regolith. The experiment consists of a regolith reservoir and a prototype of a retrieval mechanism that penetrates the regolith and obtains a dust sample of about 10 grams during microgravity conditions. The regolith reservoir has a mechanical door in place to prevent particles from escaping due to accelerations experienced during launch and prior to free-fall. When activated, the tray door retracts to expose the regolith. Next, a launch mechanism forces a hollow tube to impact the regolith-filled tray. An inverted hollow hemi-spherical device inside the tube is then rotated 180\u00b0 resulting in the containment of the regolith within the tube.<\/p>\n

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