ROSETTA-ORBITER 67P RPCIES: Calibrated Comet Data from Mission Extension 2

Calibrated data from the Rosetta spacecraft's RPCIES instrument, targeting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The dataset was produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and covers observations from 06 Apr 2016 to 30 Jun 2016. This version has been reprocessed to correct an error present in a previous release.

Use Cases

• Modeling comet-solar wind interactions based on calibrated plasma instrument data.
• Analyzing temporal changes in the comet's environment during the specified mission phase.
• Validating and correcting previous scientific analyses using the reprocessed data version.

Strengths

• Data is calibrated, which suggests a processed state ready for scientific analysis.
• Covers a specific 86-day observation period from a major space mission.
• Reprocessed to remove an error identified in a previous version, indicating quality control.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Collected by the RPCIES instrument aboard the Rosetta orbiter spacecraft.

Time Range

06 Apr 2016 to 30 Jun 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 14:37:21.500698; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko