ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P: OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera Images of Comet 67P

OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera image data from the Rosetta spacecraft's EXTENSION 2 mission phase, covering the period from 2016-05-03 to 2016-05-31. The data is solar stray light corrected, radiometrically calibrated, and geometrically distortion corrected, presented in reflectance units. This V1.0 dataset was produced by NASA following an external peer review in October 2018.

Use Cases

• Analyzing comet surface features and albedo based on calibrated reflectance data.
• Studying temporal changes on comet 67P's nucleus during the specified mission phase.
• Training computer vision models for automated feature detection on planetary bodies.

Strengths

• Data is processed to CODMAC level 4, indicating solar stray light correction, radiometric calibration, and geometric correction.
• Covers a specific, defined observation period from 2016-05-03T23:25:00.000 to 2016-05-31T23:24:59.000.
• Dataset version V1.0 was corrected following an external peer review in October 2018.

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.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2016-05-03T23:25:00.000 to 2016-05-31T23:24:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 15:34:22.773082; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko 1 (1969 R1)