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This paper discusses the Fiberscope Sample Imaging (FiSI) system currently being developed for a potential robotic comet surface sample return mission. In this mission concept, the spacecraft would perform touch-and-go maneuver at a small body to collect a comet surface sample. Immediately after the sample is captured the FiSI would perform in situ verification of the comet sample. Sample volume would...