Lyctos Facula

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Coordinates: 7 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 172 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E

Lyctos Facula (bottom left) and Ida Facula (top left).
Amalthea on a photo from Voyager 1 from 425 km away. Lyctos Facula is the middle point of light.

The Lyctos Facula (also Mons Lyctos ) is a mountain up to 25 km high on the Jupiter moon Amalthea . A dark red color was made out on the surface of this satellite, which should be evidence of volcanic eruptions of Jupiter's moon Io . (The most prominent volcano on Io is Tupan-Patera .) Lactos Facula is a "twin" of Ida Facula.

Lyctos Facula is an elongated mountain with a length of 50 km. This mountain was discovered by Voyager 1 in 1979 and later photographed in greater detail by Galileo. Why the facula on Amalthea are brightly colored is not yet sufficiently clear. It is believed that a meteorite released this bright mass.

Naming

The mountain was named in 1979 by the  IAU  after the Cretan city ​​of Lyktos .

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