ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P OSIWAC: Comet 67P Wide-Angle Camera Images, Feb-Mar 2016

NASA's ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P OSIWAC 4 EXT1-MTP026 RDR-INF-REFL V1.0 dataset contains processed image data from the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera on the Rosetta spacecraft. The data covers comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from 2016-02-09 to 2016-03-08 and has been corrected for stray light, radiometrically calibrated, and geometrically resampled to reflectance units. This is the first version (V1.0) of the dataset, released after a 2019 external peer review.

Use Cases

• Analyzing comet surface albedo and reflectance properties based on the normalized reflectance data.
• Mapping morphological features on comet 67P based on the geometrically corrected image data.
• Studying temporal changes on the comet's surface during the specified mission phase.
• Training machine learning models for automated feature detection in planetary imagery.

Strengths

• Data is corrected for solar and in-field stray light, improving accuracy.
• Images are radiometrically calibrated and geometrically distortion corrected.
• Covers a defined period from 2016-02-09T23:25:00.000 to 2016-03-08T23:24:59.000.
• Dataset has undergone an external peer review as of September 2019.

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.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Acquired by the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera on the Rosetta spacecraft during the ROSETTA EXTENSION 1 mission phase.

Time Range

2016-02-09T23:25:00.000 to 2016-03-08T23:24:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 16:41:34.690648; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko