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No color, relief, dated surface change or uniform500m/pixel observed detail is implied. Source zero-coded nodata remains dark; no hidden hemisphere is reconstructed.", "coverage": "Actual low-resolution spacecraft gap fill and explicit dark polar no-data coverage preserved. No synthetic hemisphere or missing-polar fill.", "frame_limit": "Provider body-fixed rotating planetocentric coordinates; named modern IAU frame realization unspecified. 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