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Thallo Mons

Greek goddess of vegetation flowering (Spring Hora).

What Thallo Mons is

Thallo Mons is a mons — a mountain — on Venus, 40 km across, centred at 74.5° N, 129.0° W in the Pandrosos Dorsa quadrangle. It is the 1169th largest named feature on Venus and the 114th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Greek goddess of vegetation flowering (Spring Hora). The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1985, under the theme it applies to every mons on Venus. Of the 117 features of this class catalogued on Venus, the naming categories run Greek (8), Egypt (8), Hopi (5), India (4).

Feature class
a mountain
Diameter
40 km
about a marathon
Coordinates
74.5° N, 129.0° W
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
1985
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Pandrosos Dorsa
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
Greek
Europe

What it would take to settle Thallo Mons

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 74.5° N, 129.0° W.

Settlement difficulty here
47.8/ 100
Harder than most of this world
Venus overall
43
4.8 harder than the median site
Ranked
1969th
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is known ground 5,545 km from Venera 9 (1975). What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Thallo Mons'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 mons features on Venus

All 117 montes on Venus — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.