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Suge Facula

region on Mercury

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ52063683 ↗
Source-derived summary

Suge Facula is a bright region on the surface of Mercury, located at 26.1 N, 300.4 W. It was named by the IAU in 2018. Suge is the Basque word for snake.

Location

Suge Facula lies between the inner peak ring and rim in the southeast portion of Rachmaninoff crater, in the Hokusai quadrangle of Mercury.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Suge Facula” as region on Mercury. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Suge, Facula and region.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Suge, Facula and region providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Suge Facula”, the useful work is to connect “region on Mercury” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q52063683. Authority coordinates are 26.100, -300.400. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Suge Facula” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.