Images of the inverted dust distribution in two vertical planes containing the Sun (located at 0,0) and oriented along Galactic longitudes of l = 160 and 172 degrees. Galactic latitudes are indicated by dashed black lines, every 5 degrees from b = 0 in the plane to b = −90 (South Galactic pole). Coordinates are in parsecs. The quantity represented in black and white is the differential extinction dA_V/dl at each point. Isocontours are shown for 0.0002,0.00045, 0.001, 0.002, 0.005, 0.01, 0.015, and 0.02 mag per parsec. Superimposed are the closest and farthest locations of the molecular clouds from the Zucker et al. (2020) catalog that are at longitudes close to the one of the image (see text). A dashed pink line connects these two locations for each cloud.