ROSETTA-ORBITER OSIWAC: Comet 67P Imagery from September-October 2016

NASA's Rosetta spacecraft OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera captured calibrated image data of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The dataset contains stray-light corrected and radiometrically calibrated images in W/m^2/sr/nm from the ROSETTA EXTENSION 3 mission phase, covering the period from 2016-09 26 to 2016-10-01. This is the first version (V1.0) of this dataset, released after a 2019 peer review.

Use Cases

• Analyze comet surface features and morphology based on the calibrated image data.
• Study temporal changes in comet 67P's activity based on the September-October 2016 time range.
• Validate or develop image processing algorithms for stray-light correction based on the dataset's described corrections.
• Perform photometric analysis of the comet's nucleus based on the radiometrically calibrated data in W/m^2/sr/nm.

Strengths

• Data is radiometrically calibrated and corrected for solar and in-field stray light, as described.
• Covers a specific 5-day observation period from 2016-09-26 to 2016-10-01.
• Dataset is peer-reviewed, having undergone a PSA/PDS external review in September 2019.

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

2016-09-26T06:40:00.000 to 2016-10-01T00:00:00.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 05:18:58.988179; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (solar system).