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Amazonis

Land of the Amazons; on the island Hesperia.

What Amazonis is

Amazonis is an albedo feature — a region named for how bright or dark it appears from a distance — on Mars, centred at 0.0° N, 140.0° W.

Where the name comes from

Land of the Amazons; on the island Hesperia. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1958.

Feature class
a region named for how bright or dark it appears from a distance
Diameter
Not catalogued
Coordinates
0.0° N, 140.0° W
Planetocentric, on Mars
Name approved
1958
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Greek
Europe

What it would take to settle Amazonis

Mars scores 26.6 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 0.0° N, 140.0° W.

Settlement difficulty here
25.6/ 100
Typical for this world
Mars overall
26.6
1 easier than the median site
Ranked
260th
of 2,049 named places on Mars

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 100% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Mars gets. What works against it is water outside the ice-bearing latitudes.

Computed from Amazonis'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 Mars (radiation geometry, earth link). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Mars 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 albedo feature features on Mars