Ida Facula is a mountain on Amalthea, one of Jupiter's smallest moons. It is known to be twenty kilometers in height, like the neighboring mountain Lyctos Facula. It is named for Mount Ida, a mountain in Crete where Zeus played as a child.
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“There are two great unknown forces to-day, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman.”
—Josephine K. Henry, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 15, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)