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Titan · Crater · 239th largest named feature

Ksa

Lakota and Oglala (South Dakota, USA) god of wisdom.

What Ksa is

Ksa is a crater — a circular depression, almost always an impact scar — on Titan, 29 km across, centred at 14.0° N, 65.4° W. It is the 239th largest named feature on Titan and the 10th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Lakota and Oglala (South Dakota, USA) god of wisdom. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2006, under the theme it applies to every crater on Titan. Of the 12 features of this class catalogued on Titan, the naming categories run Italy (1), Norse (1), New Guinea (1), Bella Coola (1).

Feature class
a circular depression, almost always an impact scar
Diameter
29 km
about a marathon
Coordinates
14.0° N, 65.4° W
Planetocentric, on Titan
Name approved
2006
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Lakota
North America

What it would take to settle Ksa

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 14.0° N, 65.4° W.

Settlement difficulty here
32.8/ 100
Typical for this world
Titan overall
32.6
0.2 harder than the median site
Ranked
186th
of 304 named places on Titan

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 97% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Titan gets. What works against it is temperature about -179 °C mean at this latitude.

Computed from Ksa'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 crater features on Titan

All 12 craters on Titan — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.