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The variation of water ice cloud optical depth retrieved from THEMIS observations as a function of season (Ls) and local time. To make a consistent comparison across all Mars Years, only those retrievals located within the two regions outlined by green boxes in Fig. 5 are used. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
