On a rotary coring bit, the cutting apparatus surrounds a hollow center, called the core barrel, where the core sample is stored. This core barrel is made up of an inner and outer barrel separated ...

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After being collected in 1966, however, the subglacial core sample—about 12 feet of frozen mud and bedrock from below the ice—was stored in an Army lab freezer, then at the University of Buffalo.

Perseverance can collect rock core samples slightly thicker than a pencil using its Sampling and Caching System. Inside the coring bit is the sample tube, which can be seen in the image below.

Heilig has turned core samples from mines into colorful coverings for concrete tables. These core samples were pulled to help miners determine where minerals, such as gold and copper, were prevalent.