Skyresh
What Skyresh is
Skyresh is a crater — a circular depression, almost always an impact scar — on Phobos, 1.5 km across, centred at 52.5° N, 40.0° E. It is the 19th largest named feature on Phobos and the 16th largest of its class there.
Where the name comes from
Skyresh Bolgolam, High Admiral of the Lilliput council who opposed Gulliverâs plea for freedom and accused him of being a traitor in Jonathan Swift's novel "Gulliver's Travels." The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2006, under the theme it applies to every crater on Phobos. Of the 17 features of this class catalogued on Phobos, the naming categories run Ireland (8), American (5), France (1), Germany (1).
What it would take to settle Skyresh
Phobos scores 48.7 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 52.5° N, 40.0° E.
What this spot has going for it is temperature — about -54 °C mean at this latitude. What works against it is water — same as everywhere else on this world.
Computed from Skyresh's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 68% of the model's weight had a basis here, and 3 axes were dropped as not applicable to Phobos (radiation geometry, earth link, known ground). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Phobos 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 Phobos
All 17 craters on Phobos — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.