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Callisto · Crater · 105th largest named feature

Sarakka

Finno-Ugric goddess of childbirth.

What Sarakka is

Sarakka is a crater — a circular depression, almost always an impact scar — on Callisto, 47.7 km across, centred at 3.3° S, 53.5° W. It is the 105th largest named feature on Callisto and the 92nd largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Finno-Ugric goddess of childbirth. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1979, under the theme it applies to every crater on Callisto. Of the 141 features of this class catalogued on Callisto, the naming categories run Norse (70), Finland (12), Norway (10), Eskimo (9).

Feature class
a circular depression, almost always an impact scar
Diameter
47.7 km
about a marathon
Coordinates
3.3° S, 53.5° W
Planetocentric, on Callisto
Name approved
1979
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Finland
Europe

What it would take to settle Sarakka

Callisto scores 44.6 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 3.3° S, 53.5° W.

Settlement difficulty here
42.4/ 100
Better than most of this world
Callisto overall
44.6
2.2 easier than the median site
Ranked
1st
of 154 named places on Callisto

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 100% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Callisto gets. What works against it is temperature about -131 °C mean at this latitude.

Computed from Sarakka's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 84% of the model's weight had a basis here, and 2 axes were dropped as not applicable to Callisto (earth link, known ground). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Callisto 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 crater features on Callisto

All 141 craters on Callisto — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.