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

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is the prime target of this image dataset from the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera. The dataset contains solar stray light corrected, radiometric calibrated, and geometric distortion corrected image data in W/m^2/sr/nm, covering the period from 2014-01-20 to 2014-05-07. This V1.0 dataset was produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and is the first version following an external peer review.

Use Cases

• Analyze comet surface morphology and activity based on calibrated image data.
• Study temporal changes in comet 67P's coma and nucleus during the pre-landing mission phase.
• Validate radiometric calibration and stray light correction algorithms for space imagery.
• Map photometric properties of the comet's surface using the radiometric units (W/m^2/sr/nm).

Strengths

• Data is corrected for solar stray light, radiometric calibration, and geometric distortion.
• Covers a specific 4-month pre-landing mission phase from January to May 2014.
• Dataset version V1.0 is the first peer-reviewed release following an October 2018 external review.

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.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2014-01-20T10:00:00.000 to 2014-05-07T12:47:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 10:50:38.135044; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (1969 R1)