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Our model planet without clouds in F (top) and |Q| (bottom), using MODIS data of the following days (from left to right): July 1, July 28, August 24, September 20, October 17,November 13, and December 10, 2011, at various sub-observer longitudes and the following phase angles α: 0°, 20.41°, 40.82°, 60.25°, 90.49°, 109.92°, and 135.25°. The images are not a temporal sequence, they only illustrate various appearances of the planet. The RGB colors were computed using weighted additive color mixing of the fluxes at λ = 443 nm (blue), 550 nm (green), and 670 nm (red), such that when these fluxes are equal, the resulting color is white. The grayscale of each pixel is computed from the sum of the fluxes at the three wavelengths. These images have 220 pixels along the light equator of the planet.

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