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Titan · Collis · 157th largest named feature

Faramir Colles

Wise man of nobility; character from Middle-earth, the fictional setting in fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien.

What Faramir Colles is

Faramir Colles is a collis — a small hill or knob — on Titan, 82 km across, centred at 4.0° N, 153.8° W. It is the 157th largest named feature on Titan and the 5th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Wise man of nobility; character from Middle-earth, the fictional setting in fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2012, under the theme it applies to every collis on Titan.

Feature class
a small hill or knob
Diameter
82 km
about the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
4.0° N, 153.8° W
Planetocentric, on Titan
Name approved
2012
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
England
Europe

What it would take to settle Faramir Colles

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 4.0° N, 153.8° W.

Settlement difficulty here
32.4/ 100
Typical for this world
Titan overall
32.6
0.2 easier than the median site
Ranked
93rd
of 304 named places on Titan

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 Faramir Colles'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 collis features on Titan