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Concordia Regio

Roman abstract divinity of harmony.

What Concordia Regio is

Concordia Regio is a regio — a large area distinguished by its brightness or colour — on Titan, 1,500 km across, centred at 20.0° S, 119.0° E. It is the 5th largest named feature on Titan and the 1st largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Roman abstract divinity of harmony. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2012, under the theme it applies to every regio on Titan. Of the 5 features of this class catalogued on Titan, the naming categories run Roman (1), China (1), Egypt (1), Puerto Rico (1).

Feature class
a large area distinguished by its brightness or colour
Diameter
1,500 km
about the length of California
Coordinates
20.0° S, 119.0° E
Planetocentric, on Titan
Name approved
2012
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Roman
Europe

What it would take to settle Concordia Regio

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 20.0° S, 119.0° E.

Settlement difficulty here
32/ 100
Typical for this world
Titan overall
32.6
0.6 easier than the median site
Ranked
30th
of 304 named places on Titan

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 95% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Titan gets. What works against it is temperature about -179 °C mean at this latitude.

Computed from Concordia Regio'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.

What is next to it

The largest regio features on Titan