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Venus · Crater · 1187th largest named feature

Cline

Patsy; American singer (1932-1963).

What Cline is

Cline is a crater — a circular depression, almost always an impact scar — on Venus, 38 km across, centred at 21.8° S, 42.9° W in the Navka Planitia quadrangle. It is the 1187th largest named feature on Venus and the 121st largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Patsy; American singer (1932-1963). The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1994, under the theme it applies to every crater on Venus. Of the 881 features of this class catalogued on Venus, the naming categories run American (88), Russia (55), France (47), England (47).

Feature class
a circular depression, almost always an impact scar
Diameter
38 km
about a marathon
Coordinates
21.8° S, 42.9° W
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
1994
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Navka Planitia
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
American
North America

What it would take to settle Cline

Venus scores 43 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 21.8° S, 42.9° W.

Settlement difficulty here
41.6/ 100
Typical for this world
Venus overall
43
1.4 easier than the median site
Ranked
201st
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 93% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Venus gets. What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Cline'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 Venus (radiation geometry, earth link). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Venus 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 crater features on Venus

All 881 craters on Venus — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.