Delphi Flexus
What Delphi Flexus is
Delphi Flexus is a flexus — a low curved ridge with a scalloped pattern — on Europa, 793 km across, centred at 68.2° S, 174.1° W. It is the 51st largest named feature on Europa and the 4th largest of its class there.
Where the name comes from
Where the cow led Cadmus before it stopped at the site of Thebes. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1985, under the theme it applies to every flexus on Europa.
What it would take to settle Delphi Flexus
Europa scores 60.9 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 68.2° S, 174.1° W.
What this spot has going for it is water — same as everywhere else on this world. What works against it is sunlight — 37% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Europa gets.
Computed from Delphi Flexus's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 84% of the model's weight had a basis here, and 2 axes were dropped as not applicable to Europa (earth link, known ground). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Europa 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.