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Dilmun

Sumerian garden of paradise, primeval land of bliss.

What Dilmun is

Dilmun is an albedo feature — a region named for how bright or dark it appears from a distance — on Titan, centred at 15.0° N, 175.0° W.

Where the name comes from

Sumerian garden of paradise, primeval land of bliss. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2006.

Feature class
a region named for how bright or dark it appears from a distance
Diameter
Not catalogued
Coordinates
15.0° N, 175.0° W
Planetocentric, on Titan
Name approved
2006
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Sumerian
Asia

What it would take to settle Dilmun

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 15.0° N, 175.0° W.

Settlement difficulty here
31.6/ 100
Typical for this world
Titan overall
32.6
1 easier than the median site
Ranked
15th
of 304 named places on Titan

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 97% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Titan gets. What works against it is temperature about -179 °C mean at this latitude.

Computed from Dilmun'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 albedo feature features on Titan