ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P OSIWAC: Calibrated Comet 67P Images from March-April 2016

OSIRIS Wide 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 during its extended mission from March 8 to April 5, 2016. This version 1.0 data was produced by NASA following an external peer review in September 2019.

Use Cases

• Analyze comet surface morphology and activity based on calibrated wide-angle images
• Study temporal changes in comet 67P's coma and jets during the specified mission phase
• Validate or develop radiometric calibration models for space camera data
• Perform photometric analysis of comet nuclei using the stray-light corrected radiance values

Strengths

• Data is corrected for multiple artifacts: solar stray-light, in-field stray-light, and geometric distortion
• Images are radiometrically calibrated with physical units (W/m^2/sr/nm)
• Covers a defined observation period from 2016 03 08 to 2016 04 05
• Dataset has undergone external peer review as part of the PSA/PDS process

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is 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

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 04:22:35.405159; freshness should be verified

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (solar system)