ROSETTA-ORBITER RPCICA: Pre-Landing Solar Wind Measurements Near Comet 67P

NASA's ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P RPCICA 4 PRL CORR-CTS V1.0 dataset contains corrected and resampled raw data from the RPCICA instrument during the mission's pre-landing phase. The data has been corrected for cross-talk and treated for noise, resulting in measurements in counts, which may include negative values. It captures measurements of the undisturbed solar wind and its interaction with the atmosphere of comet 67P.

Use Cases

• Analyzing solar wind properties before comet influence based on the description of 'undisturbed solar wind' measurements.
• Studying the interaction between solar wind and a cometary atmosphere based on data from when Rosetta was close to comet 67P.
• Developing or testing noise correction and cross-talk removal algorithms based on the described preprocessing steps.
• Calibrating instrument data from physical units to raw counts based on the dataset's format description.

Strengths

• Data has been corrected for cross-talk using an automatic algorithm.
• Noise has been treated to be even regardless of onward noise suppression.
• Contains measurements of both the undisturbed solar wind and its interaction with comet 67P's atmosphere.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is in counts, not physical units, and may contain negative values due to noise treatment.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Measurements from the RPCICA instrument on the Rosetta spacecraft.

Time Range

Pre-landing phase of the Rosetta mission.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 17:28:55.591935; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Space, near comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.