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Corrin Labyrinthus

Planet from the Dune series; site of Battle of Corrin.

What Corrin Labyrinthus is

Corrin Labyrinthus is a labyrinthus — a complex of intersecting valleys or ridges — on Titan, 280 km across, centred at 66.0° S, 31.0° W. It is the 56th largest named feature on Titan and the 8th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Planet from the Dune series; site of Battle of Corrin. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2017, under the theme it applies to every labyrinthus on Titan.

Feature class
a complex of intersecting valleys or ridges
Diameter
280 km
about the length of the Grand Canyon
Coordinates
66.0° S, 31.0° W
Planetocentric, on Titan
Name approved
2017
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
United States
North America

What it would take to settle Corrin Labyrinthus

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 66.0° S, 31.0° W.

Settlement difficulty here
35.2/ 100
Harder than most of this world
Titan overall
32.6
2.6 harder than the median site
Ranked
278th
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 ground broken ground — hard to reach, and worth reaching for the shelter and the exposed strata.

Computed from Corrin Labyrinthus'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 labyrinthus features on Titan

All 25 labyrinthi on Titan — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.