Santorini Facula

{{Short description|Bright spot on Titan}}

{{Infobox feature on celestial object

|name = Santorini Facula

|type = Facula

|coordinates = 2° 24′ 0″ N, 145° 36′ 0″ W

|diameter = 140 km

|eponym = Santorini

|image = Titan (Mond) (7185904).jpg

|caption = Santorini Facula is an elongated bright spot around a dark impact crater in lower left corner

}}

The Santorini Facula is a {{Linktext|facula}}, or bright spot, surrounding a 40-km-wide impact crater on the surface of Titan. It was named after the Greek island Santorini in 2006.{{GPN|6998|Santorini Facula}}{{cite book|last1=Coustenis|first1=Athena|title=Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World|date=2008|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=9789812811615|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j3O47dxrDAQC&pg=PA267|language=en}}

References

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{{cite journal

|title =Spectral properties of Titan's impact craters imply chemical weathering of its surface

|author =Neish C. D. |author2=Barnes J. W. |author3=Sotin C. |display-authors=et al.

|date =2015

|journal=Geophysical Research Letters

|volume =42

|issue =10

|pages =3746–3754

|doi =10.1002/2015GL063824

|bibcode=2015GeoRL..42.3746N

|pmid =27656006

|pmc=5012121

}}

}}

Category:Surface features of Titan (moon)

Category:Santorini

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