Feia Lacus
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Cassini synthetic aperture radar image of Feia Lacus, a hydrocarbon lake on Titan with several large peninsulas.
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| Feature type | Lacus |
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| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Diameter | 47 km[note 1] |
| Eponym | Lagoa Feia |
Feia Lacus is one of a number of hydrocarbon seas and lakes found on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.[1] It was named in 2007[2] on the basis of data taken by the space probe Casssini.[3]
The lake is located at latitude 73.7°N and longitude 64.41° W on Titan's globe,[4] and is composed of liquid methane and ethane.[5] At 47 km in length it is moderately sized.[4] It is named after Lagoa Feia in Brazil.[6]
Notes
- ↑ The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.
References
- ↑ Map of the liquid bodies in the north polar region of Titan.
- ↑ Twelve New Names Approved for Use on Titan.
- ↑ Rev195: Jul 15 - Aug 5 '13.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Robert Hanbury Brown, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, John H. Waite Titan from Cassini-Huygens.(Springer, 2009) page 508.
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