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

OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera image data of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, corrected for solar stray light and radiometrically calibrated. The dataset contains reflectance-normalized images from the PRELANDING mission phase between 2014-07-02 and 2014-08-01. This V1.0 dataset was produced by NASA following an external peer review in October 2018.

Use Cases

• Analyze cometary surface morphology and geological features based on calibrated reflectance imagery.
• Study temporal changes in comet 67P's activity and surface properties during the prelanding phase.
• Validate and develop photometric models for cometary surfaces using stray-light-corrected data.
• Map albedo variations across the comet's nucleus using normalized reflectance units.

Strengths

• Data is corrected for solar stray light, radiometrically calibrated, and geometrically distortion-corrected.
• Covers a defined time range from 2014-07-02T08:35:00.000 to 2014-08-01T09:59:59.000.
• Dataset version V1.0 was produced after an external peer review process in October 2018.

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

2014-07-02 to 2014-08-01

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 08:22:28.415200; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko