Nakuru Lacuna
Cassini view of Titan's north polar seas and lakes in the near infrared.
Nakuru Lacuna is the largest intermittent lake on Titan.[1]
It is located at 65.81°N and 94°W[2] on Titan's surface and is 175 km in length. The lake is composed of liquid ethane and methane,[3] and was detected by the Cassini–Huygens space probe.
Indications are that it is an Intermittent Lake and so was named in 2013[4] after the Lake Nakuru, Kenya.[5]
It is the sixth largest body of liquid Hydrocarbon on Titan.
References
- ↑ http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/SearchResults?target=TITAN&featureType=Lacuna,%20lacunae
- ↑ Planetary names
- ↑ Athéna Coustenis, F. W. Taylor Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. (World Scientific, 2008) pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-981-270-501-3.
- ↑ Five New Names Approved for Use on Titan
- ↑ Nakuru Lacuna at Planetary names.usgs.gov.
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