ROSETTA-ORBITER: Solar Wind and Magnetosphere Data from Earth Flyby

Corrected and resampled raw data from the RPCICA instrument on the ROSETTA mission during its third Earth flyby. The dataset contains observations of the solar wind near Earth and a passage through the Earth's magnetosphere, including some radiation belt data. Data was processed by NASA, last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling solar wind behavior near Earth based on the corrected instrument counts.
• Analyzing magnetospheric structure and dynamics during a spacecraft passage.
• Studying radiation belt particle fluxes from the included radiation belt data.
• Validating cross-talk correction and noise treatment algorithms for space instrument data.

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 observations from a specific mission event: the third Earth flyby of the ROSETTA spacecraft.

Limitations

• Data is in counts, not physical units, requiring conversion for some analyses.
• Data may have negative values due to the noise treatment process.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Collected by the RPCICA instrument on the ROSETTA mission.

Time Range

During the third Earth flyby of the ROSETTA mission.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 18:06:27.186384; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Observations in the vicinity of Earth and its magnetosphere.