Ahmakiq Undae
What Ahmakiq Undae is
Ahmakiq Undae is an unda — a dune field — on Titan, 812 km across, centred at 2.2° N, 157.3° E. It is the 18th largest named feature on Titan and the 1st largest of its class there.
Where the name comes from
Mayan deity who locks up the crop-destroying winds. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2026, under the theme it applies to every unda on Titan. Of the 6 features of this class catalogued on Titan, the naming categories run Greek (5), Mayan (1).
What it would take to settle Ahmakiq Undae
Titan scores 32.6 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 2.2° N, 157.3° E.
What this spot has going for it is sunlight — 100% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Titan gets. What works against it is temperature — about -179 °C mean at this latitude.
Computed from Ahmakiq Undae'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 Titan (radiation geometry, earth link). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Titan 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.