ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P OSINAC: Calibrated Comet 67P Images from the Prelanding Phase

OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, corrected for stray light and radiometrically calibrated. The dataset contains processed image data in W/m^2/sr/nm, acquired by the Rosetta spacecraft between May 7 and June 4, 2014. This V1.0 dataset was produced by NASA following an external peer review in September 2019.

Use Cases

• Analyze comet surface morphology based on calibrated, high-resolution imagery.
• Study comet outgassing and activity using radiometrically calibrated data.
• Perform photometric modeling based on stray-light corrected images.
• Validate geometric models of the comet nucleus using distortion-corrected frames.

Strengths

• Data is corrected for solar and in-field stray light, radiometric calibration, and geometric distortion.
• Covers a specific 28-day mission phase in 2014 during the comet approach.
• Peer-reviewed and corrected as version V1.0 after an external review process.

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

2014-05-07T12:48:00.000 to 2014-06-04T10:49:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 15:58:25.630508; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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