Conamara Chaos
What Conamara Chaos is
Conamara Chaos is a chaos — terrain broken into a jumble of blocks and hollows — on Europa, 144 km across, centred at 9.7° N, 87.3° E. It is the 75th largest named feature on Europa and the 5th largest of its class there.
Where the name comes from
Rugged part of western Ireland named for Conmac, son of the Queen of Connacht. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1997, under the theme it applies to every chaos on Europa.
What it would take to settle Conamara Chaos
Europa scores 60.9 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 9.7° N, 87.3° E.
What this spot has going for it is sunlight — 99% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Europa gets. What works against it is radiation geometry — on the trailing hemisphere, which takes the brunt of the bombardment.
Computed from Conamara Chaos'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 Europa (earth link, known ground). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Europa 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.