ROSETTA-ORBITER: OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera Images of Comet 67P (2014)

NASA's Rosetta spacecraft OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera captured calibrated and corrected image data of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The dataset covers the period from 20 January 2014 to 7 May 2014 during the PRELANDING mission phase. This version V1.0 is the first release, corrected after an external peer review in October 2018.

Use Cases

• Analyze cometary surface morphology and geology based on calibrated reflectance imagery.
• Study temporal changes on the comet's nucleus during the pre-landing approach phase.
• Validate or develop photometric models for cometary surfaces using normalized reflectance data.
• Perform geometric mapping and distortion correction validation for spaceborne camera data.

Strengths

• Data is radiometrically calibrated and geometrically distortion-corrected to CODMAC level 4 standards.
• Covers a defined time range from 2014-01-20T10:00:00.000 to 2014-05-07T12:47:59.000.
• Peer-reviewed and corrected dataset (V1.0) following an October 2018 external review.

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

2014-01 20T10:00:00.000 to 2014-05-07T12:47:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 18:46:38.346100; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko