ROSETTA-ORBITER: OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera Images of Comet 67P, May 2016

OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, corrected for stray light and radiometrically calibrated. The dataset contains reflectance data from the ROSETTA EXTENSION 2 mission phase, covering the period from 2016-05 03 to 2016-05-31. This version V1.0 is the first version of this dataset, produced by NASA after a 2019 external peer review.

Use Cases

• Analyzing comet surface albedo and reflectance properties based on calibrated image data.
• Studying temporal changes on the comet's surface during the May 2016 observation period.
• Developing and validating stray-light correction algorithms for space camera imagery.
• Training machine learning models for automated feature detection on small celestial bodies.

Strengths

• Data is corrected for solar and in-field stray light, radiometrically calibrated, and geometrically distortion corrected.
• Covers a specific 28-day observation period from 2016-05-03 to 2016-05-31.
• Target is the well-known comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a prime Rosetta mission target.
• Dataset version V1.0 is the result of a September 2019 external peer review process.

Limitations

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

Time Range

2016-05-03T23:25:00.000 to 2016 -05-31T23:24:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 13:40:45.830576; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko 1 (1969 R1).