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Baseline pole solution model for the Didymos system. The allowed area of the retrograde pole of the mutual orbit in ecliptic coordinates. The grey area was derived from the 2003 + 2015 photometric observations. The red curve is an outline of the area that was further constrained with the modeling refined using the preliminary primary shape model. The cross is the south pole of Didymos’ heliocentric orbit.