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Eigin Corona

Celtic fertility goddess.

What Eigin Corona is

Eigin Corona is a corona — an oval feature raised by rising material beneath the crust — on Venus, 200 km across, centred at 5.0° S, 175.0° E in the Diana Chasma quadrangle. It is the 755th largest named feature on Venus and the 202nd largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Celtic fertility goddess. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1994, under the theme it applies to every corona on Venus. Of the 340 features of this class catalogued on Venus, the naming categories run India (16), Greek (14), Celtic (12), Roman (11).

Feature class
an oval feature raised by rising material beneath the crust
Diameter
200 km
about 1.7 times shorter than the length of the Grand Canyon
Coordinates
5.0° S, 175.0° E
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
1994
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Diana Chasma
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
Celtic
Europe

What it would take to settle Eigin Corona

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 5.0° S, 175.0° E.

Settlement difficulty here
40.6/ 100
Better than most of this world
Venus overall
43
2.4 easier than the median site
Ranked
18th
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 100% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Venus gets. What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Eigin Corona'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 corona features on Venus

All 340 coronae on Venus — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.