Bolsena Lacus

Bolsena Lacus
	False-color Cassini synthetic aperture radar image of hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Bolsena Lacus is at center, with Sotonera Lacus to its upper right.
Feature type	Lacus
Coordinates	75.8°N 10.3°W
Diameter	101 km[note 1]
Eponym	Lake Bolsena

Bolsena Lacus is one of a number of hydrocarbon lakes found on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.[1][2]

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.[2][note 1] 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,[3] and was detected by the Cassini space probe. It was named in 2007 after Lake Bolsena in Italy.[2]

Notes

The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.

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.

External links

USGS labelled synthetic aperture radar map of Titan's north polar region

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[qualifier-1] The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.

[2] Robert Hanbury Brown, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, John H. Waite, Titan from Cassini-Huygens (Springer, 2009) page 508.

[USGS-3] "Bolsena Lacus". USGS planetary nomenclature. USGS. Retrieved 2013-12-28.

[Coustenis2008-4] 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.