Ladoga Lacus
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| File:PIA17470 Titan northern hemisphere.jpg False-color near infrared view of Titan's northern hemisphere, showing its seas and lakes. Orange areas near some of them may be deposits of organic evaporite left behind by receding liquid hydrocarbon. | |
| Feature type | Lacus |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Diameter | 110 km[note 1] |
| Eponym | Lake Ladoga |
Ladoga Lacus is a geographical feature on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, named after Lake Ladoga, Russia. It is one of a number of "methane lakes" found in Titan's north polar region.[1]
The lake, detected in 2004 by the Cassini space probe, is composed of liquid ethane and methane.[2] It is 110 kilometers along its longest dimension and is located at Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. on Titan's globe.
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Athéna Coustenis, F. W. Taylor Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. (World Scientific, 2008) pp. 154–155. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
