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Venus · Crater · 1796th largest named feature

Lu Zhi

Chinese first name.

What Lu Zhi is

Lu Zhi is a crater — a circular depression, almost always an impact scar — on Venus, 8.3 km across, centred at 42.6° S, 56.6° W in the Nepthys Mons quadrangle. It is the 1796th largest named feature on Venus and the 703rd largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Chinese first name. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1997, 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
8.3 km
about 1.7 times a 5 km run
Coordinates
42.6° S, 56.6° W
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
1997
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Nepthys Mons
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
China
Asia

What it would take to settle Lu Zhi

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 42.6° S, 56.6° W.

Settlement difficulty here
43.2/ 100
Typical for this world
Venus overall
43
0.2 harder than the median site
Ranked
1061st
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is known ground 3,182 km from Venera 14 (1982). What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Lu Zhi'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.