ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P OSIWAC: Calibrated Comet Images from July-August 2014

OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, corrected for stray light and radiometrically calibrated. The dataset covers a one-month period from July 2 to August 1, 2014, during the Rosetta spacecraft's prelanding mission phase. This version 1.0 data was produced by NASA following an external peer review in September 2019.

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 prelanding phase.
• Validate or train image processing algorithms for stray-light and radiometric correction.
• Perform photometric analysis of comet features using data in W/m^2/sr/nm units.

Strengths

• Data is corrected for solar and in-field stray light, radiometric calibration, and geometric distortion.
• Covers a defined one-month observation period from 2014-07-02 to 2014-08-01.
• Version 1.0 indicates a peer-reviewed, corrected release following a 2019 review.

Limitations

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

2014-07-02T08:35:00.000 to 2014-08-01T09:59:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 12:47:39.242790; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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