XMM-Newton background-subtracted flux images (combining MOS and PN cameras) of the northwest (top) and south (bottom) pointings of RX J0852.0−4622 in the 1.2–6 keV energy band. As in Fig. 1, the solid lines illustrate the regions of spectral extraction, whereas the dashed lines represent the regions used to estimate the astrophysical background. The images were adaptively smoothed to reach a S/N of 10, the color scale is in square root and the units are ph/cm²/s/arcmin².