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

NASA's Rosetta spacecraft OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera captured calibrated images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from 2016-05 31 to 2016-06-28. The dataset contains solar and in-field stray-light corrected, radiometric calibrated, and geometric distortion corrected image data in units of W/m^2/sr/nm. This version V1.0 is the first release following a 2019 external peer review.

Use Cases

• Analyze cometary surface morphology and features based on high-resolution calibrated imagery.
• Study temporal changes in comet 67P's activity and outgassing based on image sequences over a month.
• Validate or develop photometric models for cometary surfaces using radiometrically calibrated data.
• Perform geometric mapping and 3D reconstruction of the comet nucleus using distortion-corrected images.

Strengths

• Data has undergone multiple correction processes: solar stray-light, in-field stray-light, radiometric calibration, and geometric distortion correction.
• Covers a defined temporal range from 2016-05-31T23:25:00.000 to 2016-06-28T23:24:59.000.
• Dataset is peer-reviewed, with version V1.0 released after an external review in September 2019.

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 freshness should be verified; the metadata was last updated in March 2026.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Acquired by the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera on the Rosetta spacecraft during the ROSETTA EXTENSION 2 mission phase.

Time Range

2016-05-31T23:25:00.000 to 2016-06-28T23:24:59.000

Freshness

Metadata last updated 2026-03-13.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (1969 R1)