ROSETTA-ORBITER OSINAC: Reflectance Images of Comet 67P, September-October 2016

OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, radiometrically calibrated and corrected to reflectance units. The dataset covers the period from 2016-09 26T06:40:00.000 to 2016-10-01T00:00:00.000 during the ROSETTA EXTENSION 3 mission phase. This version V1.0 is the first release from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, corrected after an October 2018 external peer review.

Use Cases

• Analyze comet surface albedo and reflectance properties based on the radiometric calibration mentioned.
• Study geometric features and terrain on comet 67P based on the distortion-corrected image data.
• Monitor temporal changes on the comet's surface during the specified mission phase in late 2016.
• Validate or train computer vision models for planetary object recognition using real space mission imagery.

Strengths

• Data is radiometrically calibrated and geometrically distortion-corrected, indicating a processed, analysis-ready state.
• Covers a specific 5-day observation window from 2016-09-26 to 2016-10-01, providing temporal focus.
• Produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and has undergone an external peer review (October 2018).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2016-09-26T06:40:00.000 to 2016-10-01T00:00:00.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 20:18:45.733834; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (1969 R1)