ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P OSIWAC: Solar Stray Light Corrected Comet Images

Solar stray light corrected, radiometric calibrated, and geometric distortion corrected image data of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The dataset contains images in W/m^2/sr/nm acquired by the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera on the Rosetta spacecraft from 2014-07-02 to 2014-08-01. This V1.0 dataset was produced by NASA following an external peer review in October 2018.

Use Cases

• Analyze comet surface morphology and activity based on calibrated radiance values.
• Validate and develop stray light correction algorithms for space camera data.
• Study temporal changes in comet 67P's coma and nucleus during the prelanding mission phase.
• Perform photometric analysis of comet features using the radiometric calibration.

Strengths

• Data is corrected for solar stray light, radiometric calibration, and geometric distortion.
• Covers a specific one-month observation period from July to August 2014.
• Dataset 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 is 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

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 15:36:42.644221; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko