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Polaznik Macula

Slavic god of New Year's happiness.

What Polaznik Macula is

Polaznik Macula is a macula — a dark spot — on Titan, 347 km across, centred at 41.1° S, 79.6° E. It is the 48th largest named feature on Titan and the 2nd largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Slavic god of New Year's happiness. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2010, under the theme it applies to every macula on Titan. Of the 7 features of this class catalogued on Titan, the naming categories run Slavic (2), Greek (1), Aztec (1), India (1).

Feature class
a dark spot
Diameter
347 km
about the length of the Grand Canyon
Coordinates
41.1° S, 79.6° E
Planetocentric, on Titan
Name approved
2010
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Slavic
Europe

What it would take to settle Polaznik Macula

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 41.1° S, 79.6° E.

Settlement difficulty here
33.4/ 100
Typical for this world
Titan overall
32.6
0.8 harder than the median site
Ranked
241st
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 Polaznik Macula'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 macula features on Titan