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Abaya Lacus

Abaya Lacus
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Titan's "kissing lakes", Abaya Lacus, as viewed by Cassini's synthetic aperture radar.
Feature typeLacus
Coordinates73°12′N 45°36′W / 73.2°N 45.6°W / 73.2; -45.6
Diameter65 km[note 1]
EponymLake 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

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  1. ^ a b The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Abaya Lacus". USGS. Retrieved 2013-12-28.
  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.