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Gabie Rupes

Lithuanian goddess of fire and hearth.

What Gabie Rupes is

Gabie Rupes is a rupes — a scarp or cliff — on Venus, 350 km across, centred at 67.5° N, 109.9° E in the Meskhent quadrangle. It is the 538th largest named feature on Venus and the 7th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Lithuanian goddess of fire and hearth. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1985, under the theme it applies to every rupes on Venus. Of the 7 features of this class catalogued on Venus, the naming categories run Lithuania (2), Roman (2), Caucasus (1), Turkmenistan (1).

Feature class
a scarp or cliff
Diameter
350 km
about the length of the Grand Canyon
Coordinates
67.5° N, 109.9° E
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
1985
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Meskhent
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
Lithuania
Europe

What it would take to settle Gabie Rupes

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 67.5° N, 109.9° E.

Settlement difficulty here
47.3/ 100
Harder than most of this world
Venus overall
43
4.3 harder than the median site
Ranked
1943rd
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is known ground 8,606 km from Venera 9 (1975). What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Gabie Rupes'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 rupes features on Venus