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Hano

Bella Coola (northwestern USA and western Canada) goddess of education, knowledge, and magic. She manifested as a shaman so she could teach the people.

What Hano is

Hano is a crater — a circular depression, almost always an impact scar — on Titan, 100 km across, centred at 40.3° N, 14.9° E. It is the 140th largest named feature on Titan and the 4th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Bella Coola (northwestern USA and western Canada) goddess of education, knowledge, and magic. She manifested as a shaman so she could teach the people. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2011, under the theme it applies to every crater on Titan. Of the 12 features of this class catalogued on Titan, the naming categories run Italy (1), Norse (1), New Guinea (1), Bella Coola (1).

Feature class
a circular depression, almost always an impact scar
Diameter
100 km
about the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
40.3° N, 14.9° E
Planetocentric, on Titan
Name approved
2011
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Bella Coola
North America

What it would take to settle Hano

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 40.3° N, 14.9° E.

Settlement difficulty here
34.1/ 100
Typical for this world
Titan overall
32.6
1.5 harder than the median site
Ranked
270th
of 304 named places on Titan

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 79% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Titan gets. What works against it is temperature about -179 °C mean at this latitude.

Computed from Hano'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 crater features on Titan

All 12 craters on Titan — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.