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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Eyre Lacuna

Eyre Lacuna is a feature on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, believed to be a currently dry bed of an intermittent hydrocarbon lake.

When full, the lake would be composed of liquid methane and ethane. It was detected in 2007 by the Cassini–Huygens space probe.

References

  1. ^ "Eyre Lacuna". planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov. USGS. Retrieved 2013-12-28.
  2. ^ Coustenis, A.; Taylor, F. W. (21 July 2008). Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. World Scientific. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-981-281-161-5.