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Leilah Fluctus

Persian goddess of beauty and chastity.

What Leilah Fluctus is

Leilah Fluctus is a fluctus — a flow of erupted material — on Titan, 190 km across, centred at 50.5° N, 77.8° W. It is the 86th largest named feature on Titan and the 3rd largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Persian goddess of beauty and chastity. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2007, under the theme it applies to every fluctus on Titan. Of the 5 features of this class catalogued on Titan, the naming categories run India (1), Indonesia (1), Persian (1), New Zealand (1).

Feature class
a flow of erupted material
Diameter
190 km
about 1.8 times shorter than the length of the Grand Canyon
Coordinates
50.5° N, 77.8° W
Planetocentric, on Titan
Name approved
2007
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Persian
Asia

What it would take to settle Leilah Fluctus

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 50.5° N, 77.8° W.

Settlement difficulty here
34.5/ 100
Typical for this world
Titan overall
32.6
1.9 harder than the median site
Ranked
276th
of 304 named places on Titan

What this spot has going for it is known ground 4,398 km from Huygens (2005). What works against it is temperature about -179 °C mean at this latitude.

Computed from Leilah Fluctus'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 fluctus features on Titan