Mackay Lacus
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False-color Cassini radar image of hydrocarbon lakes on Titan (2006), showing Mackay Lacus at upper left.
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| Feature type | Lacus |
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| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Diameter | 180 km[note 1] |
| Eponym | Lake Mackay |
Mackay Lacus is the seventh largest of a number of hydrocarbon seas and lakes found on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
The lake is composed of liquid methane and ethane,[1] and was detected by the Cassini space probe.
Mackay Lacus is located at coordinates 78.32°N and 97.53°W on Titan's globe and is 180 km in length.[2][note 1] It is named after Lake Mackay in Western Australia.[2]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.
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