ROSETTA-ORBITER STEINS OSINAC 3: Asteroid Steins Images from Rosetta Fly-By

The Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera captured radiometrically calibrated image data of asteroid 2867 Steins during a fly-by mission phase. NASA produced this CODMAC level 3 dataset, covering the period from August 4 to October 5, 2008. The data is calibrated to physical units (W/m^2/sr/nm) and represents version 2.0, reprocessed after an external peer review in October 2018.

Use Cases

• Analyze asteroid surface morphology and albedo based on calibrated image data.
• Study spectral properties of asteroid 2867 Steins based on radiometric measurements.
• Validate and compare asteroid models using data from a specific spacecraft fly-by.
• Reprocess or benchmark analysis pipelines using a peer-reviewed, versioned dataset.

Strengths

• Data is radiometrically calibrated to physical units (W/m^2/sr/nm).
• Dataset is version 2.0, reprocessed after an October 2018 external peer review.
• Covers a defined mission phase from 2008-08-04 to 2008-10-05.
• Produced by NASA, a recognized authority in space science.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are 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

2008-08-04T00:00:00.000 to 2008-10-05T23:59:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 17:44:43.498884; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Asteroid 2867 Steins (spaceborne observation).