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Muhongo Mons

Mbundu (Angola) ancestor deity.

What Muhongo Mons is

Muhongo Mons is a mons — a mountain — on Venus, 175 km across, centred at 10.6° N, 174.5° E in the Rusalka Planitia quadrangle. It is the 819th largest named feature on Venus and the 82nd largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Mbundu (Angola) ancestor deity. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2003, under the theme it applies to every mons on Venus. Of the 117 features of this class catalogued on Venus, the naming categories run Greek (8), Egypt (8), Hopi (5), India (4).

Feature class
a mountain
Diameter
175 km
about 1.8 times the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
10.6° N, 174.5° E
Planetocentric, on Venus
Name approved
2003
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Rusalka Planitia
Map sheet on Venus
Naming category
Angola
Africa

What it would take to settle Muhongo Mons

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 10.6° N, 174.5° E.

Settlement difficulty here
42.8/ 100
Typical for this world
Venus overall
43
0.2 easier than the median site
Ranked
905th
of 1,985 named places on Venus

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 98% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Venus gets. What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Muhongo Mons'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 mons features on Venus

All 117 montes on Venus — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.