Vacuna Corona
What Vacuna Corona is
Vacuna Corona is a corona — an oval feature raised by rising material beneath the crust — on Venus, 448 km across, centred at 60.4° N, 96.0° E in the Meskhent quadrangle. It is the 456th largest named feature on Venus and the 44th largest of its class there.
Where the name comes from
Sabinian (Ancient Italy) goddess of harvest. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1985, 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).
What it would take to settle Vacuna 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 60.4° N, 96.0° E.
What this spot has going for it is known ground — 9,262 km from Venera 9 (1975). What works against it is water — same as everywhere else on this world.
Computed from Vacuna 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.