Müggel Lacus

Müggel Lacus is one of a number of hydrocarbon seas and lakes found on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.[1]

Müggel Lacus
False-color near infrared view of Titan's northern hemisphere, showing its seas and lakes.
Feature typeLacus
Coordinates84.44°N 203.5°W / 84.44; -203.5
Diameter170 km[note 1]
EponymMüggelsee

The lake is located at latitude 84.44°N and longitude 203.5° W on Titan's globe,[2] and is composed of liquid methane and ethane,[3] With a diameter of 170 km, it is the fifth largest of Titan's named lakes. It is named after Müggelsee in Berlin, Germany, the term being adopted by the IAU on Dec 3, 2013.[2]

Notes

  1. The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.
gollark: They're base64-encoded 768-bit keys for no good reason now.
gollark: That sounds plausible.
gollark: It won't be a fake computer when I finish implementing potatOS in hardware.
gollark: I'm counting by characters, not lines, but sure.
gollark: The 950-line potatOS Tau file is maybe an eighth of the total code it downloads.

References

  1. Map of the liquid bodies in the north polar region of Titan.
  2. "Müggel Lacus". USGS planetary nomenclature page. USGS. Retrieved 2015-05-23. External link in |work= (help)
  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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.