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

Calibrated data from the Rosetta spacecraft's RPCIES instrument, collected during the Prelanding phase targeting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reprocessed this version to correct an error from a previous release. Measurements were taken between 21 January 2014 and 19 November 2014.

Use Cases

• Analyzing comet 67P's plasma environment based on calibrated RPCIES instrument data.
• Studying temporal changes in comet activity during the 10-month Prelanding phase.
• Validating space physics models using reprocessed and corrected calibration data.
• Comparing solar wind interactions with comet 67P across the observed time range.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly calibrated and reprocessed to remove an error from a previous version.
• Covers a specific 10-month operational phase (Prelanding) from 21 Jan 2014 to 19 Nov 2014.
• Target is a well-known celestial body: comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Measurements from the RPCIES instrument aboard the Rosetta orbiter spacecraft.

Time Range

21 January 2014 to 19 November 2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 17:39:06.101594; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Space; orbital measurements of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.