Equatorial dark region on Pluto
Balrog Macula is the largest of the "Brass Knuckles", a series of equatorial dark regions on Pluto.
It is the largest dark equatorial feature on Pluto after the Belton Regio, and is located in the middle of the leading hemisphere.
It is named after the balrogs, a race of demons in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien.[1][2]
Cthulhu and the "Knuckles". Balrog is the large region at 90 degrees west longitude.
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