ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P: OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera Images of Comet 67P, September-October 2014

OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera image data from the Rosetta spacecraft, targeting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The dataset contains calibrated and corrected images in physical units (W/m^2/sr/nm) for the period from 2014-09-23 to 2014-10-24. This V1.0 version is the first release, produced by NASA following an external peer review in September 2019.

Use Cases

• Analyze cometary surface morphology and geology based on calibrated wide-angle images.
• Study comet 67P's activity and outgassing patterns during the pre-landing mission phase.
• Validate or develop photometric models for cometary bodies using radiometrically calibrated data.
• Perform temporal analysis of cometary features over the one-month observation period.

Strengths

• Data is processed to CODMAC level 4, indicating solar stray-light, in-field stray-light, radiometric, and geometric distortion corrections.
• Images are provided in physical units (W/m^2/sr/nm), enabling quantitative scientific analysis.
• Covers a defined one-month observation period from 2014-09 23 to 2014-10-24 during a key mission phase.

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

2014-09-23T10:00:00.000 to 2014-10-24T09:59:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 17:33:21.951600; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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