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Jael Mons

Hebrew goddess of dawn.

What Jael Mons is

Jael Mons is a mons — a mountain — on Venus, 36 km across, centred at 51.2° N, 120.8° E in the Atalanta Planitia quadrangle. It is the 1201st largest named feature on Venus and the 116th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Hebrew goddess of dawn. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1991, under the theme it applies to every mons on Venus. Of the 117 features of this class catalogued on Venus, the naming categories run Greek (8), Egypt (8), Hopi (5), India (4).

Feature class
a mountain
Diameter
36 km
about a marathon
Coordinates
51.2° N, 120.8° E
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
1991
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Atalanta Planitia
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
Hebrew
Asia

What it would take to settle Jael Mons

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 51.2° N, 120.8° E.

Settlement difficulty here
45.6/ 100
Harder than most of this world
Venus overall
43
2.6 harder than the median site
Ranked
1726th
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is known ground 8,021 km from Vega 2 (1985). What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Jael Mons'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 mons features on Venus

All 117 montes on Venus — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.