Feia Lacus

Feia Lacus is one of a number of hydrocarbon seas and lakes found on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.[1] It was named in 2007[2] on the basis of data taken by the space probe Cassini.[3]

Feia Lacus
Cassini synthetic aperture radar image of Feia Lacus, a hydrocarbon lake on Titan with several large peninsulas.
Feature typeLacus
Coordinates73.7°N 64.4°W / 73.7; -64.4
Diameter47 km[note 1]
EponymLagoa Feia

The lake is located at latitude 73.7°N and longitude 64.41° W on Titan's globe,[4] and is composed of liquid methane and ethane.[5] At 47 km in length it is moderately sized.[4] It is named after Lagoa Feia in Brazil.[6]

Lagoa Feia in Brazil

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

References
  1. Map of the liquid bodies in the north polar region of Titan.
  2. Twelve New Names Approved for Use on Titan.
  3. Rev195: Jul 15 - Aug 5 '13.
  4. "Feia Lacus". USGS planetary nomenclature page. USGS. Retrieved 2013-12-28.
  5. Coustenis, A.; Taylor, F. W. (21 July 2008). Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. World Scientific. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-981-281-161-5.
  6. Robert Hanbury Brown, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, John H. Waite Titan from Cassini-Huygens.(Springer, 2009) page 508.
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