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Agraulos Corona

Greek fertility goddess.

What Agraulos Corona is

Agraulos Corona is a corona — an oval feature raised by rising material beneath the crust — on Venus, 170 km across, centred at 27.7° S, 165.8° E in the Mahuea Tholus quadrangle. It is the 830th largest named feature on Venus and the 252nd largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Greek fertility goddess. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1994, under the theme it applies to every corona on Venus. Of the 340 features of this class catalogued on Venus, the naming categories run India (16), Greek (14), Celtic (12), Roman (11).

Feature class
an oval feature raised by rising material beneath the crust
Diameter
170 km
about 1.7 times the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
27.7° S, 165.8° E
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
1994
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Mahuea Tholus
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
Greek
Europe

What it would take to settle Agraulos Corona

Venus scores 43 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 27.7° S, 165.8° E.

Settlement difficulty here
42/ 100
Typical for this world
Venus overall
43
1 easier than the median site
Ranked
504th
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 89% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Venus gets. What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Agraulos Corona'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 Venus (radiation geometry, earth link). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Venus 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 corona features on Venus

All 340 coronae on Venus — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.