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Paxsi

Aymara (Peru, Bolivia) goddess of the moon, education and knowledge.

What Paxsi is

Paxsi is a large ringed feature — a multi-ring impact basin, the largest class of impact structure there is — on Titan, 120 km across, centred at 5.0° N, 18.8° E. It is the 124th largest named feature on Titan and the 1st largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Aymara (Peru, Bolivia) goddess of the moon, education and knowledge. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2010, 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
120 km
about the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
5.0° N, 18.8° E
Planetocentric, on Titan
Name approved
2010
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Peru
South and Central America

What it would take to settle Paxsi

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 5.0° N, 18.8° E.

Settlement difficulty here
32.9/ 100
Typical for this world
Titan overall
32.6
0.3 harder than the median site
Ranked
195th
of 304 named places on Titan

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 100% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Titan gets. What works against it is temperature about -179 °C mean at this latitude.

Computed from Paxsi'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