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Nimloth Colles

Second queen of Doriath, a fictional realm of Grey Elves; character from Middle-earth, the fictional setting in fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien.

What Nimloth Colles is

Nimloth Colles is a collis — a small hill or knob — on Titan, 90 km across, centred at 11.9° N, 151.3° W. It is the 150th largest named feature on Titan and the 4th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Second queen of Doriath, a fictional realm of Grey Elves; character from Middle-earth, the fictional setting in fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2012, under the theme it applies to every collis on Titan.

Feature class
a small hill or knob
Diameter
90 km
about the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
11.9° N, 151.3° W
Planetocentric, on Titan
Name approved
2012
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
England
Europe

What it would take to settle Nimloth Colles

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 11.9° N, 151.3° W.

Settlement difficulty here
32.6/ 100
Typical for this world
Titan overall
32.6
Exactly typical
Ranked
166th
of 304 named places on Titan

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 98% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Titan gets. What works against it is temperature about -179 °C mean at this latitude.

Computed from Nimloth Colles'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 collis features on Titan