ROSETTA-ORBITER VIRTIS: Telemetry Data for Comet 67P, February-March 2016

Rosetta spacecraft telemetry contains digital numbers from the VIRTIS instrument during its orbit of comet 67P. This volume covers the EXTENSION 1 MTP026 phase from February 10 to March 9, 2016. NASA produced this version 2.0 dataset using a fixed EGSE software, correcting an earlier version that generated incomplete products.

Use Cases

• Analyze comet surface composition based on VIRTIS spectral telemetry data
• Study temporal changes in comet 67P's activity during the specified orbital phase
• Validate instrument calibration and data processing algorithms using the corrected software version

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 29-day orbital phase around comet 67P
• Version 2.0 corrects incomplete products generated by an earlier software version
• Dataset is produced by NASA

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Digital numbers contained in telemetry packages from the VIRTIS instrument on the Rosetta spacecraft

Time Range

2016-02-10 to 2016-03-09

Freshness

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