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In Part II we discuss white clouds and the polar regions. The equatorial cloud band (ECB) was well observed from Ls= 001° onward. The behaviour of the orographic clouds over the great volcanoes was seasonally normal, in the absence of any large dust disturbance. We saw the Tharsis orographics from Ls= 011°, and the Olympus Mons orographic from Ls= 019°. As with the ECB, observations did not continue late enough to establish their seasonal decline. The 2009-’10 N. polar cap recession was followed in detail nearly as far as the summer remnant stage.