ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P OSINAC: Solar Stray Light Corrected Comet Images

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is the prime target of this image dataset from the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera. The data covers a period from 2014-06-04 to 2014-07-02 and has been processed to correct for solar stray light, radiometric calibration, and geometric distortion. 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 morphology and features based on calibrated, high-resolution imagery.
• Study temporal changes in comet activity during the pre-landing mission phase.
• Validate and refine photometric models using radiometrically calibrated data in W/m^2/sr/nm.

Strengths

• Data is corrected for solar stray light, radiometrically calibrated, and geometrically distortion-corrected.
• Covers a specific mission phase from 2014-06-04T10:50:00.000 to 2014-07-02T08:34:59.000.
• Dataset version V1.0 is the first release, corrected after an October 2018 external peer 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

2014-06-04T10:50:00.000 to 2014-07-02T08:34:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 15:21:54.626854; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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