Polarized brightness of the corona observed with Metis. Top panel: Map of the polarized brightness of the solar corona observed with Metis on February 22, 2021, at 19:55 UT within the FOV ranging from 3.1 R_⊙ to 5.7 R_⊙ combined with the solar disk emission at 17.4 nm observed with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on board Solar Orbiter (Rochus et al. 2020). Bottom panel: Radially filtered polarized brightness of the solar corona in the Metis FOV resulting from the Predictive Science Inc. 3D MHD simulations based on SDO/HMI measurements and calculated considering the position of the Solar Orbiter with respect to the Sun during the Metis observations.