Jump to content

Albano Lacus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Bender the Bot (talk | contribs) at 21:23, 15 August 2019 (→‎top: switch to .com for Google Books; same content, but more trustworthy top-level domain, replaced: https://books.google.com.eg/ → https://books.google.com/). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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.

Albano 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.

The lake is 6.2 Km in length the lake is named after Lake Albano in Italy. and every lake in Titan end by the word lacus and it is mean (Lake).

The lake is at 66°00′N 236°30′W / 66°N 236.5°W / 66; -236.5.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Planetary Names: Lacus, lacūs: Albano Lacus on Titan". planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
  2. ^ Coustenis, Athena (2008). Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. World Scientific. ISBN 9789812811615.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albano_Lacus&oldid=910990114"