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Agonium Rupes

Roman festival celebrated several times a year; on this day the Rex sacrorum offered a ram in the Regia.

What Agonium Rupes is

Agonium Rupes is a rupes — a scarp or cliff — on Vesta, 111 km across, centred at 53.5° S, 43.9° W. It is the 11th largest named feature on Vesta and the 2nd largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Roman festival celebrated several times a year; on this day the Rex sacrorum offered a ram in the Regia. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2011, under the theme it applies to every rupes on Vesta.

Feature class
a scarp or cliff
Diameter
111 km
about the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
53.5° S, 43.9° W
Planetocentric, on Vesta
Name approved
2011
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Roman
Europe

What it would take to settle Agonium Rupes

Vesta scores 56.2 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 53.5° S, 43.9° W.

Settlement difficulty here
59.5/ 100
Harder than most of this world
Vesta overall
56.2
3.3 harder than the median site
Ranked
105th
of 106 named places on Vesta

What this spot has going for it is temperature about -93 °C mean at this latitude. What works against it is water same as everywhere else on this world.

Computed from Agonium Rupes'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 Vesta (radiation geometry, earth link, known ground). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Vesta 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 rupes features on Vesta