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Celadon Flumina

River in The Iliad.

What Celadon Flumina is

Celadon Flumina is a flumen — a channel that carries, or once carried, a liquid — on Titan, 160 km across, centred at 73.7° S, 28.8° W. It is the 101st largest named feature on Titan and the 5th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

River in The Iliad. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2014, under the theme it applies to every flumen on Titan. Of the 11 features of this class catalogued on Titan, the naming categories run Greek (4), Norse (2), Hebrew (1), Jewish (1).

Feature class
a channel that carries, or once carried, a liquid
Diameter
160 km
about 1.6 times the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
73.7° S, 28.8° W
Planetocentric, on Titan
Name approved
2014
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Greek
Europe

What it would take to settle Celadon Flumina

Titan scores 32.6 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 73.7° S, 28.8° W.

Settlement difficulty here
33.6/ 100
Typical for this world
Titan overall
32.6
1 harder than the median site
Ranked
248th
of 304 named places on Titan

What this spot has going for it is water inside the polar zone where Titan keeps its ice. What works against it is temperature about -180 °C mean at this latitude.

Computed from Celadon Flumina'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 Titan (radiation geometry, earth link). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Titan 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 flumen features on Titan

All 11 flumina on Titan — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.