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The core extracted by the drill, is transferred to the CSHS for several scientific analysis and remote sensing data collection. The CSHS is an automated system capable of positioning a particular section of the core under scrutiny under any of the instruments for analysis with a precision of about 0.01mm. During the transfer of the core from the drill handoff mechanism onto the CSHS, the core is pushed out of the drill; the exposed rock is pushed past the suite of instruments. The piston pushing the core is carefully calibrated with the instruments and their placement. At any time, it is well known which part of the core is under which instrument. A particular spot on the core that is observed by one instrument can later be correlated with readings from another instrument for the same portion of core. Once the remote science instruments have collected their data, the final item in the series of instruments is the core subsample tool. This tool cuts a slice of the core which is deposited in a crusher to conduct analysis requiring powder samples such as SOLID and BSEDS.