Global views of comet 9P/Tempel 1 from different perspectives, providing overall context for the regions discussed in this work. In all panels, the Z-axis indicates the north direction. (a) Equatorial region observed in the deconvolved HRI image 9000909; the arrow marks the secondary smooth unit, hereafter referred to as the equatorial smooth unit. (b) Northern hemisphere as seen in Stardust-NExT image 30039; the white arrow indicates a region where a smooth unit is visible, hereafter referred to as the northern smooth unit. The orange arrow highlights a system of terraces comprising up to five distinct steps. (c) Southern region observed in Stardust-NExT image 30035; the arrow marks the large smooth patch.