READ ME!!!

This is the README for the dataset:
Dataset for: Microgravity Penetrometry Flight Campaign in Support of MMX Sampler Science Exploitation 

This dataset is provided to accompany the work of Smyth-Moore et al. 2025: "Microgravity Penetrometry Flight Campaign in Support of MMX Sampler Science Exploitation"

Documentation:
Within this dataset is an excel file titled "Matrix for data.xlxs". This file provides a key to understand the file names and understand what data is associated with each variable (penetration velocity, tip shape, sample).

Section 1:
On each of the three flights, 30 parabolas were flown. Section 1 shows the penetration velocity used for each flight/parabola.

Section 2:
During each parabola, 8 penetrations were performed. Section 2 gives the container label for each penetration, together with the material and tip used in that container.

Section 3:
A description of the Material and Tip properties for Section2.

ReactionForce_ExtensionDepth_Data:
The datafiles with the penetration data.
The datafiles have two columns: the Reaction Force (N) and Extension Distance (mm) for each penetration.

The file names are composed of the Flight, Parabola and Container number. The Penetration Velocity can be obtained from the parabola number from Section 2, and the material and tip shape can be obtained from the Container number from Section 2.
So for example, Flight1_Parabola2_2 shows Flight 1, Parabola 2, Container 2, which we can then determine were for Penetration Velocity 3 mms-1, 5mm glass beads, flat tip penetrator.

Also note: There is no data available for the following penetrations due to corruption in data:

Flight1_Parabola3_8
Flight1_Parabola23_9
Flight2_Parabola23_3
Flight3_Parabola15_8
Flight3_Parabola19_8

Videos:

This dataset includes video footage for each parabola, each video consisting of the 8 penetrations that occured for that specific parabola.
Note that the order of the video footage is not in order of container or camera number. However there are labels on the lid of the containers which indicate the sample that is being penetrated. 
C4 7: Camera 4, Container 7. These combinations of cameras and containers can be seen in Section 2 of "Matrix for data.xlsx"
The files are named with the Flight and Parabola. For example, Flight2_Parabola30.mp4

Data Sample:
The folder SampleOfData_Flight1_Parabola2 contains the video and 8 data files for Flight1 Parabola2. This data is also contained in the main data files, but is provided unzipped to allow preview.