Misty Montes
What Misty Montes is
Misty Montes is a mons — a mountain — on Titan, 73 km across, centred at 56.8° N, 62.4° W. It is the 168th largest named feature on Titan and the 14th largest of its class there.
Where the name comes from
Name of a mountain range 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 mons on Titan.
What it would take to settle Misty Montes
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 56.8° N, 62.4° W.
What this spot has going for it is known ground — 4,805 km from Huygens (2005). What works against it is ground — broken ground — hard to reach, and worth reaching for the shelter and the exposed strata.
Computed from Misty Montes'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 mons features on Titan
All 16 montes on Titan — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.