ROSETTA-ORBITER RPCICA: Solar Wind Particle Counts from Cruise Phase 2

NASA's ROSETTA mission collected this solar wind data during its Cruise phase 2 using the RPCICA instrument. The dataset contains corrected and resampled raw data, processed with an automatic cross-talk correction algorithm and noise treatment that may result in negative values. Data is presented in counts rather than physical units.

Use Cases

• Analyze solar wind particle flux based on corrected count data.
• Study instrument noise characteristics and correction algorithms based on the described noise treatment.
• Model solar wind behavior during the ROSETTA mission's cruise phase based on the temporal data.
• Calibrate similar spaceborne particle instruments using the cross-talk correction methodology.

Strengths

• Data has been corrected for cross-talk using an automatic algorithm.
• Noise has been treated to be even regardless of onward noise suppression.
• Produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may contain negative values due to the described noise treatment process.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Data gathered by the RPCICA instrument on the ROSETTA orbiter mission.

Time Range

Cruise phase 2 of the ROSETTA mission.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 13 18:36:29.735589; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Space, along the ROSETTA mission trajectory.