Neagh Lacus
Hydrocarbon lakes on Titan, 2006. Neagh Lacus is in the middle distance, on the right margin.
Neagh Lacus is one of a number of hydrocarbon lakes found on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The lake is composed of liquid methane and ethane,[1] and was detected in 2007 by the Cassini–Huygens space probe.
The lacus is located at coordinates 81.11°N and 32.16°W on Titan's globe,[2] in a region close to the north pole where most of Titan's lakes are located. The lake is 98 km in length[note 1] and is named after Lake Neagh, in Northern Ireland.[2]
Notes
- ↑ The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.
References
- ↑ Coustenis, A.; Taylor, F. W. (21 July 2008). Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. World Scientific. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-981-281-161-5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Neagh Lacus". USGS planetary nomenclature page. USGS. Retrieved 2013-12-28.
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