Ladoga Lacus is a geographical feature on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, named after Lake Ladoga, Russia. It is one of a number of "methane lakes" found in Titan's north polar region.[1]

The lake, detected in 2004 by the Cassini space probe, is composed of liquid ethane and methane.[2] It is 110 kilometers along its longest dimension and is located at 74°48′N 26°06′W / 74.8°N 26.1°W / 74.8; -26.1 on Titan's globe.

Notes

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

References

  1. ^ "Ladoga Lacus". planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov. USGS. Retrieved 2015-03-25.
  2. ^ Athéna Coustenis, F. W. Taylor Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. (World Scientific, 2008) pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-981-270-501-3.


Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladoga_Lacus
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