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Nath

Irish goddess of wisdom.

What Nath is

Nath is a large ringed feature — a multi-ring impact basin, the largest class of impact structure there is — on Titan, 95 km across, centred at 30.5° S, 7.7° W. It is the 144th largest named feature on Titan and the 2nd largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Irish goddess of wisdom. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2006, under the theme it applies to every large ringed feature on Titan. Of the 4 features of this class catalogued on Titan, the naming categories run Peru (1), Ireland (1), Puerto Rico (1), Slavic (1).

Feature class
a multi-ring impact basin, the largest class of impact structure there is
Diameter
95 km
about the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
30.5° S, 7.7° W
Planetocentric, on Titan
Name approved
2006
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Ireland
Europe

What it would take to settle Nath

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 30.5° S, 7.7° W.

Settlement difficulty here
33.6/ 100
Typical for this world
Titan overall
32.6
1 harder than the median site
Ranked
249th
of 304 named places on Titan

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 88% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Titan gets. What works against it is temperature about -179 °C mean at this latitude.

Computed from Nath'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 large ringed feature features on Titan