Feia Lacus
Cassini synthetic aperture radar image of Feia Lacus, a hydrocarbon lake on Titan with several large peninsulas.
Feature typeLacus
Coordinates73°42′N 64°24′W / 73.7°N 64.4°W / 73.7; -64.4
Diameter47 km[note 1]
EponymLagoa 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 Cassini.[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]

Lagoa Feia in Brazil

Notes

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

References

  1. ^ Map of the liquid bodies in the north polar region of Titan.
  2. ^ Twelve New Names Approved for Use on Titan[permanent dead link].
  3. ^ Rev195: Jul 15 - Aug 5 '13 Archived 2017-09-09 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ a b "Feia Lacus". USGS planetary nomenclature page. USGS. Retrieved 2013-12-28.
  5. ^ Coustenis, A.; Taylor, F. W. (21 July 2008). Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. World Scientific. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-981-281-161-5.
  6. ^ Robert Hanbury Brown, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, John H. Waite Titan from Cassini-Huygens.(Springer, 2009) page 508.
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