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Bishangarh Fossae

Place in the tale "Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri Banu."

What Bishangarh Fossae is

Bishangarh Fossae is a fossa — a long, narrow depression — on Enceladus, 163 km across, centred at 24.0° S, 134.2° E. It is the 16th largest named feature on Enceladus and the 5th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Place in the tale "Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri Banu." The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2010, under the theme it applies to every fossa on Enceladus.

Feature class
a long, narrow depression
Diameter
163 km
about 1.6 times the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
24.0° S, 134.2° E
Planetocentric, on Enceladus
Name approved
2010
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Arabian
Asia

What it would take to settle Bishangarh Fossae

Enceladus scores 54.8 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 24.0° S, 134.2° E.

Settlement difficulty here
54.5/ 100
Typical for this world
Enceladus overall
54.8
0.3 easier than the median site
Ranked
38th
of 85 named places on Enceladus

What this spot has going for it is water same as everywhere else on this world. What works against it is temperature about -195 °C mean at this latitude.

Computed from Bishangarh Fossae's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 68% of the model's weight had a basis here, and 3 axes were dropped as not applicable to Enceladus (radiation geometry, earth link, known ground). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Enceladus 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 fossa features on Enceladus