ROSETTA-ORBITER RPCIES: Calibrated Comet 67P Data from Extension 1 Phase

Calibrated data from the Rosetta spacecraft's RPCIES instrument, collected during its Extension 1 mission phase. The dataset covers observations of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from 01 January 2016 to 05 April 2016. It was produced and published by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Use Cases

• Analyzing the plasma environment around comet 67P based on calibrated instrument data.
• Studying temporal changes in cometary activity during the 2016 observation window.
• Modeling solar wind interaction with the comet's coma using calibrated in-situ measurements.
• Validating simulations of cometary magnetospheres against mission-collected data.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly described as calibrated, suggesting a processed and validated state.
• Temporal coverage is precisely defined from 01 Jan 2016 to 05 Apr 2016.
• Provenance is clear, originating from the Rosetta mission and NASA.

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 (NASA)

Collection Method

Collected by the RPCIES instrument aboard the Rosetta orbiter spacecraft.

Time Range

01 January 2016 to 05 April 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 15:03:39.873801; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Observations of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the solar system.