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Moombi Corona

Gikuyu (Kenya), the first woman, ancestor of nine tribes.

What Moombi Corona is

Moombi Corona is a corona — an oval feature raised by rising material beneath the crust — on Venus, 100 km across, centred at 64.5° S, 124.5° W in the Barrymore quadrangle. It is the 965th largest named feature on Venus and the 325th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Gikuyu (Kenya), the first woman, ancestor of nine tribes. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1997, 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
100 km
about the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
64.5° S, 124.5° W
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
1997
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Barrymore
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
Kenya
Africa

What it would take to settle Moombi 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 64.5° S, 124.5° W.

Settlement difficulty here
45.3/ 100
Harder than most of this world
Venus overall
43
2.3 harder than the median site
Ranked
1668th
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is known ground 7,409 km from Vega 2 (1985). What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Moombi 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.