Bolsena Lacus
Bolsena Lacus is one of a number of hydrocarbon lakes found on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
Bolsena Lacus is located near the north pole of Titan, centered on latitude 75.75°N and longitude 10.28°W, and measures 101 km in length. It is situated in a north polar region where the majority of Titan's large lakes are found.
The lake is composed of liquid methane and ethane, and was detected by the Cassini space probe. It was named in 2007 after Lake Bolsena in Italy.
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References
- ^ Robert Hanbury Brown, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, John H. Waite, Titan from Cassini-Huygens (Springer, 2009) page 508.
- ^ "Bolsena Lacus". USGS planetary nomenclature. 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. OCLC 144226016.
