Abaya Lacus
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Titan's "kissing lakes", Abaya Lacus, as viewed by Cassini's synthetic aperture radar. | |
| Feature type | Lacus |
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| Coordinates | 73°12′N 45°36′W / 73.2°N 45.6°WCoordinates: 73°12′N 45°36′W / 73.2°N 45.6°W |
| Diameter | 65 km[note 1] |
| Eponym | Lake Abaya |
Abaya Lacus is one of a number of hydrocarbon lakes found on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.[1]
The lake is composed of liquid methane and ethane,[2] and was detected by the Cassini space probe.
Abaya Lacus is located at coordinates 73.17°N and 45.55°W on Titan's globe and is 65 km in length.[note 1] It is named after Lake Abaya in Ethiopia.[1]
Notes
- 1 2 The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.
References
- 1 2 "Abaya Lacus". USGS planetary nomenclature page. USGS. Retrieved 2013-12-28. External link in
|work=(help) - ↑ Coustenis, A.; Taylor, F. W. (21 July 2008). Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. World Scientific. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-981-281-161-5.
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