# Bolsena Lacus

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Lake on Titan

Bolsena Lacus False-color Cassini synthetic aperture radar image of hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Bolsena Lacus is at center, with Sotonera Lacus to its upper right. Feature type Lacus Coordinates 75°48′N 10°18′W / 75.8°N 10.3°W / 75.8; -10.3 Diameter 101 km[note 1] Eponym Lake Bolsena

**Bolsena Lacus** is one of a number of [hydrocarbon lakes](/source/Lakes_of_Titan) found on Saturn's largest moon, [Titan](/source/Titan_(moon)).[1][2]

Bolsena Lacus is located near the north pole of Titan, centered on [latitude](/source/Latitude) 75.75°[N](/source/North) and [longitude](/source/Longitude) 10.28°[W](/source/West), and measures 101 km in length.[2][note 1] It is situated in a north polar region where the majority of Titan's large lakes are found.

The lake is composed of [liquid](/source/Liquid) [methane](/source/Methane) and [ethane](/source/Ethane),[3] and was detected by the *[Cassini](/source/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens)* [space probe](/source/Space_craft). It was named in 2007 after [Lake Bolsena](/source/Lake_Bolsena) in [Italy](/source/Italy).[2]

## Notes

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-qualifier_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-qualifier_1-1) The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Robert Hanbury Brown, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, John H. Waite, Titan from Cassini-Huygens (Springer, 2009) [page 508](https://books.google.com/books?id=CBx9KDH1qaYC&dq=Bolsena+Lacus&pg=PA508).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-USGS_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-USGS_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-USGS_3-2) ["Bolsena Lacus"](https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/14315). *USGS planetary nomenclature*. [USGS](/source/USGS). Retrieved 2013-12-28.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Coustenis2008_4-0)** Coustenis, A.; Taylor, F. W. (21 July 2008). [*Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World*](https://books.google.com/books?id=j3O47dxrDAQC&pg=PA154). [World Scientific](/source/World_Scientific). pp. 154–155. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-981-281-161-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-981-281-161-5). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [144226016](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/144226016).

## External links

- [USGS labelled synthetic aperture radar map of Titan's north polar region](https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/titan_northpole_new.pdf)

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