Abaya Lacus

Abaya Lacus

Titan's "kissing lakes", Abaya Lacus, as viewed by Cassini's synthetic aperture radar.
Feature type Lacus
Coordinates 73°12′N 45°36′W / 73.2°N 45.6°W / 73.2; -45.6Coordinates: 73°12′N 45°36′W / 73.2°N 45.6°W / 73.2; -45.6
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. 1 2 The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.

References

  1. 1 2 "Abaya Lacus". USGS planetary nomenclature page. USGS. Retrieved 2013-12-28. External link in |work= (help)
  2. ↑ 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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