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Ki Corona

Sumerian earth goddess.

What Ki Corona is

Ki Corona is a corona — an oval feature raised by rising material beneath the crust — on Venus, 300 km across, centred at 43.2° N, 132.2° W in the Bellona Fossae quadrangle. It is the 595th largest named feature on Venus and the 111th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Sumerian earth goddess. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1997, under the theme it applies to every corona on Venus. Of the 340 features of this class catalogued on Venus, the naming categories run India (16), Greek (14), Celtic (12), Roman (11).

Feature class
an oval feature raised by rising material beneath the crust
Diameter
300 km
about the length of the Grand Canyon
Coordinates
43.2° N, 132.2° W
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
1997
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Bellona Fossae
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
Sumerian
Asia

What it would take to settle Ki Corona

Venus scores 43 as a world. That number is the same for every square metre of it — but sunlight, water, radiation and the ground under your feet are not. This is the same question asked at 43.2° N, 132.2° W.

Settlement difficulty here
43.3/ 100
Typical for this world
Venus overall
43
0.3 harder than the median site
Ranked
1104th
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is known ground 5,396 km from Venera 9 (1975). What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Ki Corona's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 74% of the model's weight had a basis here, and 2 axes were dropped as not applicable to Venus (radiation geometry, earth link). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Venus and are already counted in the world's own index, not again here.

What this cannot see: elevation. Slope, local shadowing and the polar “peaks of eternal light” — ridge tops near the poles of a barely tilted world that catch sun almost continuously while a crater floor kilometres away never does — need a terrain model this does not have. Where a real mission targets a pole, that is usually why.

What is next to it

The largest corona features on Venus

All 340 coronae on Venus — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.