ROSETTA-ORBITER LUTETIA OSINAC 3 AST2: Asteroid Radiometric Images

NASA's Rosetta spacecraft OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera captured calibrated image data of asteroid 21 Lutetia. The dataset contains radiometric measurements in W/m^2/sr/nm from the LUTETIA FLY-BY mission phase between May and September 2010. This version V2.0 supersedes previous deliveries after reprocessing following an October 2018 external peer review.

Use Cases

• Analyze asteroid surface reflectance based on radiometric calibrated image data
• Study asteroid 21 Lutetia's morphology and albedo based on spacecraft imagery
• Validate radiometric calibration techniques for planetary science instruments
• Compare reprocessed V2.0 data with previous versions for quality assessment

Strengths

• Data is radiometric calibrated to physical units (W/m^2/sr/nm)
• Dataset covers a specific mission phase from 2010-05-17 to 2010-09-03
• Version V2.0 reprocessed after an October 2018 external peer review

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

Acquired by the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera on the Rosetta spacecraft

Time Range

2010-05-17T00:00:00.000 to 2010-09-03T23:59:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 03:55:38.511647; freshness should be verified

Geography

Asteroid 21 Lutetia