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Kumang Corona

Mother goddess of Ibans, the Sea Dayaks of Borneo/Kalimantan, Indonesia.

What Kumang Corona is

Kumang Corona is a corona — an oval feature raised by rising material beneath the crust — on Venus, 40 km across, centred at 25.0° N, 11.8° E. It is the 1167th largest named feature on Venus and the 340th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Mother goddess of Ibans, the Sea Dayaks of Borneo/Kalimantan, Indonesia. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2003, 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
40 km
about a marathon
Coordinates
25.0° N, 11.8° E
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
2003
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Indonesia
Asia

What it would take to settle Kumang 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 25.0° N, 11.8° E.

Settlement difficulty here
42.2/ 100
Typical for this world
Venus overall
43
0.8 easier than the median site
Ranked
656th
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 91% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Venus gets. What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Kumang 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.