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Enceladus · Crater · 39th largest named feature

Zaynab

Daughter of Dalilah in the tale "The Rogueries of Dalilah the Crafty and Her Daughter Zaynab the Coney-Catcher."

What Zaynab is

Zaynab is a crater — a circular depression, almost always an impact scar — on Enceladus, 23.8 km across, centred at 69.5° N, 27.0° W. It is the 39th largest named feature on Enceladus and the 7th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Daughter of Dalilah in the tale "The Rogueries of Dalilah the Crafty and Her Daughter Zaynab the Coney-Catcher." The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2009, under the theme it applies to every crater on Enceladus.

Feature class
a circular depression, almost always an impact scar
Diameter
23.8 km
about the length of Manhattan
Coordinates
69.5° N, 27.0° W
Planetocentric, on Enceladus
Name approved
2009
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Arabian
Asia

What it would take to settle Zaynab

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 69.5° N, 27.0° W.

Settlement difficulty here
58/ 100
Harder than most of this world
Enceladus overall
54.8
3.2 harder than the median site
Ranked
78th
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 sunlight 35% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Enceladus gets.

Computed from Zaynab'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 crater features on Enceladus

All 53 craters on Enceladus — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.