Planitia Descensus
What Planitia Descensus is
Planitia Descensus is a planitia — a low plain — on The Moon, centred at 7.2° N, 64.2° W in the Hevelius quadrangle.
Where the name comes from
Luna 9 landing site ("plain of descent"). The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1970.
What it would take to settle Planitia Descensus
The Moon scores 29.1 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 7.2° N, 64.2° W.
What this spot has going for it is earth link — near side — Earth stands 26° above the horizon and never moves. What works against it is water — outside the ice-bearing latitudes.
Computed from Planitia Descensus's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 84% of the model's weight had a basis here, and one axis was dropped as not applicable to The Moon (radiation geometry). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on The Moon 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.