ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P OSIWAC: Solar Stray Light Corrected Comet Images, Feb-Mar 2016

OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, corrected for solar stray light and radiometrically calibrated. The dataset covers observations from February 9 to March 8, 2016, during the ROSETTA EXTENSION 1 mission phase. NASA produced this version (V1.0) as the first release following an external peer review in October 2018.

Use Cases

• Analyzing comet surface albedo and reflectance based on radiometrically calibrated image data.
• Studying comet activity and outgassing patterns using stray-light-corrected imagery.
• Mapping geometric features of comet 67P using distortion-corrected and resampled images.
• Validating photometric models for small bodies using calibrated radiance values in W/m^2/sr/nm.

Strengths

• Data is processed to CODMAC level 4, indicating radiometric calibration and geometric correction.
• Covers a specific 28-day observation period from 2016-02-09 to 2016-03-08.
• Version V1.0 indicates a peer-reviewed release following an October 2018 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 Wide Angle Camera on the Rosetta spacecraft.

Time Range

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 17:13:04.840550; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko