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

OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera images from the Rosetta spacecraft, corrected for stray light and radiometrically calibrated. This dataset covers a specific two-week period from July to August 2016, targeting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It is a Level 4 data product from NASA, representing the first version (V1.0) released after an external peer review in October 2018.

Use Cases

• Analyze comet surface morphology and activity based on calibrated image data
• Study temporal changes in comet brightness and features over the two-week observation period
• Validate or develop stray light correction and radiometric calibration algorithms for space imagery
• Support mission planning and scientific analysis for future comet encounters

Strengths

• Data is corrected for solar stray light, radiometrically calibrated, and geometrically distortion corrected
• Covers a defined 14-day period from 2016-07-26 to 2016-08-09
• Represents a peer-reviewed, versioned (V1.0) data product from a major space agency

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

2016-07 26T23:25:00.000 to 2016-08-09T23:24:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 09:17:52.214086; freshness should be verified

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko