Bolsena Lacus

Bolsena Lacus
	False-colorCassinisynthetic aperture radarimage ofhydrocarbon lakeson Titan. Bolsena Lacus is at center, withSotonera Lacusto its upper right.
Feature type	Lacus
Coordinates	75°48′N10°18′W/ 75.8°N 10.3°W
Diameter	101 km
Eponym	Lake Bolsena

Bolsena Lacusis one of a number ofhydrocarbon lakesfound on Saturn's largest moon,Titan.^[1]^[2]

Bolsena Lacus is located near the north pole of Titan, centered onlatitude75.75°Nandlongitude10.28°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 ofliquid methaneandethane,^[3]and was detected by theCassinispace probe.It was named in 2007 afterLake BolsenainItaly.^[2]

Notes[edit]

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

References[edit]

^Robert Hanbury Brown, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, John H. Waite, Titan from Cassini-Huygens (Springer, 2009)page 508.
^^a ^b ^c"Bolsena Lacus".USGS planetary nomenclature.USGS.Retrieved2013-12-28.
^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[edit]

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

[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.Retrieved2013-12-28.

[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.

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