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Nefertiti Corona

Beautiful Egyptian queen (c. 1390-c. 1354 B.C.).

What Nefertiti Corona is

Nefertiti Corona is a corona — an oval feature raised by rising material beneath the crust — on Venus, 371 km across, centred at 35.9° N, 48.2° E in the Bell Regio quadrangle. It is the 513th largest named feature on Venus and the 67th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Beautiful Egyptian queen (c. 1390-c. 1354 B.C.). The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1991, 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
371 km
about the length of the Grand Canyon
Coordinates
35.9° N, 48.2° E
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
1991
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Bell Regio
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
Egypt
Africa

What it would take to settle Nefertiti 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 35.9° N, 48.2° E.

Settlement difficulty here
43/ 100
Typical for this world
Venus overall
43
Exactly typical
Ranked
973rd
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 81% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Venus gets. What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Nefertiti 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.