ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P: OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera Images of Comet 67P

From 2016-04-05 to 2016-05-03, the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera on the Rosetta spacecraft captured calibrated images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The dataset contains solar stray light corrected, radiometric calibrated, and geometric distortion corrected image data in units of W/m^2/sr/nm. This version 1.0 dataset was produced by NASA following an external peer review in October 2018.

Use Cases

• Analyzing cometary surface morphology and features based on calibrated image data.
• Studying the brightness and reflectance properties of comet 67P based on radiometric calibration.
• Modeling cometary activity and outgassing near the nucleus based on time-series imagery.
• Validating geometric correction algorithms for spacecraft camera imagery.

Strengths

• Data is radiometric calibrated with units of W/m^2/sr/nm.
• Images are corrected for solar stray light and geometric distortion.
• Covers a specific mission phase from 2016-04-05 to 2016-05-03.
• Dataset version 1.0 was produced after an external peer review 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.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the specific 28-day mission phase.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Acquired by the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera on the Rosetta spacecraft.

Time Range

2016-04-05T23:25:00.000 to 2016-05-03T23:25:00.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 18:38:47.239698; freshness should be verified.