facula

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One of these candidate volcanoes is Titan's highest known mountain, Doom Mons, which lies beside the moon's deepest known pit in a region called Sotra Facula.

From Nature • Jan. 30, 2013

Facula, fak′ū-la, n. a spot brighter than the rest of the surface, sometimes seen on the sun's disc:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various