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Venus · Farrum · 963rd largest named feature

Liban Farra

Irish water goddess.

What Liban Farra is

Liban Farra is a farrum — a pancake-like structure, or a row of them — on Venus, 100 km across, centred at 23.9° S, 6.5° W in the Carson quadrangle. It is the 963rd largest named feature on Venus and the 5th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Irish water goddess. 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
100 km
about the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
23.9° S, 6.5° W
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
1994
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Carson
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
Ireland
Europe

What it would take to settle Liban Farra

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 23.9° S, 6.5° W.

Settlement difficulty here
42/ 100
Typical for this world
Venus overall
43
1 easier than the median site
Ranked
517th
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 Liban Farra'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