Eyre Lacuna
Lake on Titan
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Eyre Lacuna is a feature on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, believed to be a currently dry bed of an intermittent hydrocarbon lake.
Feature typeLacus
Coordinates72.6°N 225.1°W
Diameter25.4 km [1] It is named after Lake Eyre, an intermittent lake in Australia.[1]
EponymLake Abaya
Synthetic aperture radar mosaic of Titan's north polar region, showing hydrocarbon seas and lakes | |
| Feature type | Lacus |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 72.6°N 225.1°W |
| Diameter | 25.4 km [1] It is named after Lake Eyre, an intermittent lake in Australia.[1] |
| Eponym | Lake Abaya |
When full, the lake would be composed of liquid methane and ethane.[2] It was detected in 2007 by the Cassini–Huygens space probe.