Eyre_Lacuna Knowpia

Eyre Lacuna
	Synthetic aperture radar mosaic of Titan's north polar region, showing hydrocarbon seas and lakes
Feature type	Lacus
Coordinates	72°36′N 225°06′W / 72.6°N 225.1°W
Diameter	25.4 km It is named after Lake Eyre, an intermittent lake in Australia.
Eponym	Lake Abaya

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.^[2] It was detected in 2007 by the Cassini–Huygens space probe.

References edit

^ ^a ^b "Eyre Lacuna". planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov. 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.