facula

Facula is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

It was formerly known as Sotra Facula; the current name was approved on 2012-12-19.

For the genus of gossamer-winged butterflies, see Facula (butterfly).

It is known to be twenty kilometers in height, like the neighboring mountain Lyctos Facula.

It is one of two known mountains that appear on Amalthea, the other being Ida Facula.

An earlier survey of the region in 2004 revealed a circular bright spot, or facula, which was nicknamed "The Rose".

Shikoku Facula is a region of bright material on Saturn's moon Titan.

In Latin the name means little torch , in relation to the bright color worn on the Facula.

Another was Cluvia Facula, a prostitute, who supplied food to the Roman prisoners of war.

A typical example is Memphis Facula on Ganymede, a 340 km wide palimpsest.

Lyctos Facula is a mountain on one of Jupiter's smallest moons Amalthea.

A facula (plural: faculae), Latin for "little torch", is literally a "bright spot."

Shikoku Facula is named after Shikoku, the smallest of the four main Japanese islands.

Within Galileo Regio itself lies Memphis Facula.

Memphis Facula is a palimpsest, or "ghost crater", on Ganymede, the largest of the Jovian satellites.

In 2004 Cassini also detected an unusually bright feature (called Tortola Facula), which was interpreted as a cryovolcanic dome.

Shep said, 'Lucence, refulgency, facula,' or at least that's what it sounded like, although Jilly wasn't entirely sure that those collections of syllables were actually words.

It refers to two regions, Lagash Sulcus and Memphis Facula, on the surface of one of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede.

In addition, a bright region in the projected field of a light source is sometimes referred to as a facula, and photographers often use the term to describe bright, typically circular features in photographs that correspond to light sources or bright reflections in a defocused image.

The morphology of the larger palimpsests like Memphis Facula suggests that Ganymede's icy crust at the time of impact was about 10 km thick and was penetrated by the impact, allowing the slush and fluid beneath to fill and level out the crater.