ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P: OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera Images of Comet 67P, April-May 2016

OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera images from the Rosetta spacecraft, corrected for stray light and radiometrically calibrated. The dataset covers comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from April 5 to May 3, 2016, and is provided in units of W/m^2/sr/nm. This version 1.0 data was produced by NASA following an external peer review in September 2019.

Use Cases

• Analyze comet surface morphology and changes over time based on calibrated image data.
• Study comet outgassing and dust activity based on radiometric intensity measurements.
• Validate or train computer vision models for planetary feature detection based on high-resolution comet imagery.
• Perform photometric studies of the comet nucleus based on calibrated radiance values.

Strengths

• Data is corrected for multiple artifacts including solar and in-field stray light.
• Images are radiometrically calibrated to physical units (W/m^2/sr/nm).
• Dataset has undergone an external peer review process as noted in the description.
• Covers a defined observation period from 2016-04 05 to 2016-05-03.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the specific mission extension phase.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Acquired by the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera on the Rosetta spacecraft.

Time Range

2016-04-05T23:25:00.000 to 2016-05-03T23:25:00.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 12:11:05.499368; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko