Mackay Lacus

Mackay Lacus
	False-color Cassini radar image of hydrocarbon lakes on Titan (2006), showing Mackay Lacus at upper left.
Feature type	Lacus
Coordinates	78°19′N 97°32′W / 78.32°N 97.53°W
Diameter	180 km
Eponym	Lake Mackay

Mackay 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[edit]

^ ^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.
^ ^a ^b "Mackay Lacus". USGS Astrogeology Science Center. USGS. Retrieved 2013-12-28.