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Winia Fluctus

Indonesian first woman, known for her great beauty.

What Winia Fluctus is

Winia Fluctus is a fluctus — a flow of erupted material — on Titan, 300 km across, centred at 49.0° N, 46.0° W. It is the 53rd largest named feature on Titan and the 2nd largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Indonesian first woman, known for her great beauty. 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
300 km
about the length of the Grand Canyon
Coordinates
49.0° N, 46.0° W
Planetocentric, on Titan
Name approved
2007
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Indonesia
Asia

What it would take to settle Winia 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 49.0° N, 46.0° W.

Settlement difficulty here
34.5/ 100
Typical for this world
Titan overall
32.6
1.9 harder than the median site
Ranked
275th
of 304 named places on Titan

What this spot has going for it is known ground 5,316 km from Huygens (2005). What works against it is temperature about -179 °C mean at this latitude.

Computed from Winia 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