ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P: OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera Reflectance Images, May-June 2014

Calibrated reflectance image data from the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera on the Rosetta spacecraft. The dataset covers the period from 2014-05-07 to 2014-06-04 and targets comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This V1.0 version is the first release from NASA, corrected after an external peer review in October 2018.

Use Cases

• Analyze comet surface albedo and reflectance properties based on calibrated image data.
• Study the morphology and geological features of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
• Validate or train image processing algorithms for radiometrically corrected space imagery.
• Conduct temporal analysis of the comet's nucleus during the pre-landing mission phase.

Strengths

• Data is radiometrically calibrated and geometrically distortion corrected.
• Covers a defined period from 2014-05-07 to 2014-06-04.
• Version V1.0 indicates a peer-reviewed and corrected release.

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

2014-05-07T12:48:00.000 to 2014-06-04T10:49:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 15:02:30.443568; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko