Nakuru Lacuna

Largest intermittent lake on Titan

65°49′N 94°00′W / 65.81°N 94°W / 65.81; -94Diameter175 km

Nakuru Lacuna is the largest intermittent lake on Titan.^[1]

It is located at 65.81°N and 94°W^[2] on Titan's surface and is 175 km in length. The lake is composed of liquid ethane and methane,^[3] and was detected by the Cassini–Huygens space probe.

Indications are that it is an intermittent lake and so was named in 2013^[4] after the Lake Nakuru, Kenya.^[5] It is the sixth largest body of liquid hydrocarbon on Titan.

References

^ "Planetary Names: Search Results".
^ Planetary names
^ Athéna Coustenis, F. W. Taylor Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. (World Scientific, 2008) pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-981-270-501-3.
^ Five New Names Approved for Use on Titan
^ Nakuru Lacuna at Planetary names.usgs.gov.

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