Abaya Lacus

Abaya Lacus
	Titan's "kissing lakes", Abaya Lacus, as viewed by Cassini's synthetic aperture radar.
Feature type	Lacus
Coordinates	73.2°N 45.6°W
Diameter	65 km[note 1]
Eponym	Lake 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

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

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References

"Abaya Lacus". USGS. Retrieved 2013-12-28.
Coustenis, A.; Taylor, F. W. (21 July 2008). Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. World Scientific. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-981-281-161-5.

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

[USGS-2] "Abaya Lacus". USGS. Retrieved 2013-12-28.

[Coustenis2008-3] Coustenis, A.; Taylor, F. W. (21 July 2008). Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. World Scientific. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-981-281-161-5.