Kutch Lacuna

Cassini view of Titan's north polar seas and lakes in the near infrared.

Kutch Lacuna is a large intermittent lakes of Titan.[1]

It is located at 88.4°N and 217°W[2] on Titan's surface and is 175km in length. The lake is composed of liquid ethane and methane,[3] and was detected by the Cassini–Huygens space probe. Indications are that it is an Intermittent lake and so was named in 2013[4] after the Great Rann of Kutch, India-Pakistan.

References

  1. Kutch Lacuna at USGS.gov.
  2. Planetary names
  3. Athéna Coustenis, F. W. Taylor Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. (World Scientific, 2008) pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-981-270-501-3.
  4. Five New Names Approved for Use on Titan
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