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Mezzoramia

Oasis of happiness in the African desert, from an Italian legend.

What Mezzoramia is

Mezzoramia is an albedo feature — a region named for how bright or dark it appears from a distance — on Titan, centred at 70.0° S, 0.0° E.

Where the name comes from

Oasis of happiness in the African desert, from an Italian legend. 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
70.0° S, 0.0° E
Planetocentric, on Titan
Name approved
2006
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Italy
Europe

What it would take to settle Mezzoramia

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 70.0° S, 0.0° E.

Settlement difficulty here
32.9/ 100
Typical for this world
Titan overall
32.6
0.3 harder than the median site
Ranked
192nd
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 Mezzoramia'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