ROSETTA-ORBITER: Calibrated Asteroid Steins Imagery from OSIRIS Camera

A CODMAC level 4 dataset contains solar stray light corrected, radiometric calibrated, and geometric distortion corrected image data in reflectance units. The data was acquired by the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera on the Rosetta spacecraft during the STEINS FLY-BY mission phase from August 4 to October 5, 2008. This version V1.0 is the first release of this dataset from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Use Cases

• Analyze asteroid surface reflectance properties based on calibrated image data.
• Study the geometric shape and features of asteroid 2867 Steins based on corrected imagery.
• Validate or develop photometric correction models for spaceborne imagery based on the described calibration steps.

Strengths

• Data has undergone multiple processing steps: solar stray light correction, radiometric calibration, and geometric distortion correction.
• Covers a specific two-month observation period from 2008-08-04 to 2008-10-05.
• Originates from a defined space mission (Rosetta) and instrument (OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size 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 11:25:12.479794; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Asteroid 2867 Steins (solar system).