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Callisto · Catena · 17th largest named feature

Geirvimul Catena

Norse river.

What Geirvimul Catena is

Geirvimul Catena is a catena — a chain of craters — on Callisto, 113 km across, centred at 48.9° N, 12.8° E. It is the 17th largest named feature on Callisto and the 7th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Norse river. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1997, under the theme it applies to every catena on Callisto.

Feature class
a chain of craters
Diameter
113 km
about the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
48.9° N, 12.8° E
Planetocentric, on Callisto
Name approved
1997
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Norse
Europe

What it would take to settle Geirvimul Catena

Callisto scores 44.6 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 48.9° N, 12.8° E.

Settlement difficulty here
45.5/ 100
Typical for this world
Callisto overall
44.6
0.9 harder than the median site
Ranked
105th
of 154 named places on Callisto

What this spot has going for it is water same as everywhere else on this world. What works against it is temperature about -145 °C mean at this latitude.

Computed from Geirvimul Catena's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 84% of the model's weight had a basis here, and 2 axes were dropped as not applicable to Callisto (earth link, known ground). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Callisto 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 catena features on Callisto