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Egeria Farrum

Roman water nymph.

What Egeria Farrum is

Egeria Farrum is a farrum — a pancake-like structure, or a row of them — on Venus, 40 km across, centred at 43.6° N, 7.5° E in the Bereghinya Planitia quadrangle. It is the 1164th largest named feature on Venus and the 9th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Roman water nymph. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1994, under the theme it applies to every farrum on Venus. Of the 9 features of this class catalogued on Venus, the naming categories run Romania (Rumania) (2), Japan (1), Assyro-Babylonian (1), Egypt (1).

Feature class
a pancake-like structure, or a row of them
Diameter
40 km
about a marathon
Coordinates
43.6° N, 7.5° E
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
1994
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Bereghinya Planitia
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
Romania (Rumania)
Europe

What it would take to settle Egeria Farrum

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 43.6° N, 7.5° E.

Settlement difficulty here
43.4/ 100
Typical for this world
Venus overall
43
0.4 harder than the median site
Ranked
1138th
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is known ground 6,289 km from Venera 9 (1975). What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Egeria Farrum'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 farrum features on Venus