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Venus · Crater · 948th largest named feature

Cleopatra

Egyptian queen, notable for love affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony (69-30 B.C.).

What Cleopatra is

Cleopatra is a crater — a circular depression, almost always an impact scar — on Venus, 105 km across, centred at 65.8° N, 7.1° E in the Fortuna Tessera quadrangle. It is the 948th largest named feature on Venus and the 7th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Egyptian queen, notable for love affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony (69-30 B.C.). The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1982, under the theme it applies to every crater on Venus. Of the 881 features of this class catalogued on Venus, the naming categories run American (88), Russia (55), France (47), England (47).

Feature class
a circular depression, almost always an impact scar
Diameter
105 km
about the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
65.8° N, 7.1° E
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
1982
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Fortuna Tessera
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
Egypt
Africa

What it would take to settle Cleopatra

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 65.8° N, 7.1° E.

Settlement difficulty here
45.5/ 100
Harder than most of this world
Venus overall
43
2.5 harder than the median site
Ranked
1707th
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is known ground 5,923 km from Venera 9 (1975). What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Cleopatra'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 crater features on Venus

All 881 craters on Venus — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.