ROSETTA-ORBITER PRELANDING OSINAC 3 RDR: Comet 67P Images

NASA's OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera captured images of comet 67P during the Rosetta mission's PRELANDING phase. The dataset covers the period from September 23 to October 24, 2014. This version V2.0 supersedes previous deliveries.

Use Cases

• Analyze comet surface morphology based on high-resolution imagery
• Study comet activity and changes over the PRELANDING phase
• Validate spacecraft navigation and targeting using acquired images
• Compare surface features with other comet datasets

Strengths

• Images acquired by the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera, a high-resolution instrument
• Data covers a specific mission phase (PRELANDING) from September to October 2014
• Version V2.0 indicates iterative processing and quality improvements

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

Images acquired by the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera on the Rosetta orbiter.

Time Range

2014-09-23T10:00:00.000 to 2014-10-24T09:59:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 09:28:55.614839; freshness should be verified

Geography

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko