Abaya Lacus

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

Abaya Lacus
Titan's "kissing lakes", Abaya Lacus, as viewed by Cassini'ssynthetic aperture radar.
Feature type	Lacus
Coordinates	73°12′N 45°36′W / 73.2°N 45.6°W / 73.2; -45.6
Diameter	65 km^{[note 1]}
Eponym	Lake Abaya

The lake is composed of liquid methane and ethane,^[2] and was detected by the Cassini space probe.

Abaya Lacus is located at coordinates 73.17°N and 45.55°WonTitan's globe and is 65 km in length.^{[note 1]} It is named after Lake AbayainEthiopia.^[1]

Notes

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

^ Coustenis, A.; Taylor, F. W. (21 July 2008). Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. World Scientific. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-981-281-161-5.

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