Mackay Lacus
Lake on Titan
78°19′N 97°32′W / 78.32°N 97.53°W / 78.32; -97.53Mackay Lacus is the seventh largest of a number of hydrocarbon seas and lakes found on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The lake is composed of liquid methane and ethane,[1] and was detected by the Cassini space probe.
Mackay Lacus is located at the coordinates 78.32°N and 97.53°W on Titan's globe and is 180 km in length.[2][note 1] It is named after Lake Mackay in Western Australia.[2]
Notes
- ^ a b The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.
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