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Xtoh Mons

Quiche (Guatemala) goddess of weather and rain.

What Xtoh Mons is

Xtoh Mons is a mons — a mountain — on Venus, 110 km across, centred at 39.7° N, 165.8° W in the Nemesis Tessera quadrangle. It is the 945th largest named feature on Venus and the 96th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Quiche (Guatemala) goddess of weather and rain. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2006, under the theme it applies to every mons on Venus. Of the 117 features of this class catalogued on Venus, the naming categories run Greek (8), Egypt (8), Hopi (5), India (4).

Feature class
a mountain
Diameter
110 km
about the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
39.7° N, 165.8° W
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
2006
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Nemesis Tessera
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
Guatemala
South and Central America

What it would take to settle Xtoh Mons

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 39.7° N, 165.8° W.

Settlement difficulty here
44.5/ 100
Typical for this world
Venus overall
43
1.5 harder than the median site
Ranked
1473rd
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 77% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Venus gets. What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Xtoh Mons'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 mons features on Venus

All 117 montes on Venus — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.