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Capri Montes

Classical albedo feature, Capri Cornu.

What Capri Montes is

Capri Montes is a mons — a mountain — on Mars, 265 km across, centred at 19.2° S, 59.7° W in the Coprates quadrangle. It is the 348th largest named feature on Mars and the 28th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Classical albedo feature, Capri Cornu. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2020, under the theme it applies to every mons on Mars. Of the 62 features of this class catalogued on Mars, the naming categories run Greek (39), Latin (20), Turkey (1), Tanzania (1).

Feature class
a mountain
Diameter
265 km
about the length of the Grand Canyon
Coordinates
19.2° S, 59.7° W
Planetocentric, on Mars
Name approved
2020
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Coprates
Map sheet on Mars
Naming category
Latin
Europe

What it would take to settle Capri Montes

Mars scores 26.6 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 19.2° S, 59.7° W.

Settlement difficulty here
28.1/ 100
Typical for this world
Mars overall
26.6
1.5 harder than the median site
Ranked
1894th
of 2,049 named places on Mars

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 95% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Mars gets. What works against it is water outside the ice-bearing latitudes.

Computed from Capri Montes'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 Mars (radiation geometry, earth link). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Mars 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 mons features on Mars

All 62 montes on Mars — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.