ROSETTA-ORBITER: Georeferenced Comet 67P Images from OSIRIS Camera

NASA's ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P OSINAC 5 EXT1-MTP027 DDR-GEO V1.0 dataset contains derived georeferencing data products from the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera aboard the Rosetta spacecraft. The data covers comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko during the ROSETTA EXTENSION 1 mission phase from March 8 to April 5, 2016. This version V1.0 is the first release, corrected after an external peer review in October 2018.

Use Cases

• Generate precise topographic maps of comet 67P based on pixel-precise georeferencing information.
• Analyze surface feature evolution on comet 67P during the specified mission phase.
• Validate or calibrate other remote sensing datasets using the corrected georeferencing data.
• Study comet nucleus properties using derived data products from the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera.

Strengths

• Data is pixel-precise georeferenced, suggesting high locational accuracy for analysis.
• Covers a defined 28-day observation period from 2016-03-08 to 2016-04-05.
• Dataset is a corrected version (V1.0) following an external peer review process in October 2018.

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

2016-03-08T23:25:00.000 to 2016-04-05T23:24:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 14:21:14.866888; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko