{{Short description|Lake on Titan}} {{Infobox feature on celestial object |name = Feia Lacus |image = [[File:A Titan lake.jpg|240px]] |caption = ''[[Cassini–Huygens|Cassini]]'' [[synthetic aperture radar]] image of Feia Lacus, a hydrocarbon lake on Titan with several large peninsulas. |type = Lacus |coordinates = {{coord|73.7|N|64.4|W|globe:titan_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} |diameter = 47&nbsp;km<ref group="note" name="qualifier">The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.</ref> |eponym = [[Lagoa Feia]] }}

'''Feia Lacus''' is one of a number of [[Lakes of Titan|hydrocarbon seas and lakes]] found on Saturn's largest moon, [[Titan (moon)|Titan]].<ref>[https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/NP_lakes_low_noboundaries.pdf Map of the liquid bodies in the north polar region of Titan].</ref> It was named in 2007<ref>[https://archive.today/20140309070354/http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=25712 Twelve New Names Approved for Use on Titan].</ref> on the basis of data taken by the space probe ''[[Cassini–Huygens|Cassini]]''.<ref>[http://www.ciclops.org/view/7662/Rev195?js=1 Rev195: Jul 15 – Aug 5 '13] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909142059/http://www.ciclops.org/view/7662/Rev195?js=1 |date=2017-09-09 }}.</ref><br> The lake is located at [[latitude]] 73.7°[[North|N]] and [[longitude]] 64.41° [[West|W]] on Titan's globe,<ref name = "USGS">{{cite web | title = Feia Lacus | work = USGS planetary nomenclature page | publisher = [[USGS]] | url = https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/14316 | accessdate = 2013-12-28}}</ref> and is composed of liquid [[methane]] and [[ethane]].<ref name="Coustenis2008">{{cite book|last1=Coustenis | first1 = A. | last2 = Taylor |first2 = F. W.|title=Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j3O47dxrDAQC&pg=PA154|date=21 July 2008|publisher=[[World Scientific]]|pages= 154–155|isbn= 978-981-281-161-5}}</ref> At 47 [[Kilometer|km]] in length it is moderately sized.<ref name = "USGS"/> It is named after [[Formosa, Goiás#Tourist Site|Lagoa Feia]] in [[Brazil]].<ref>Robert Hanbury Brown, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, John H. Waite Titan from Cassini–Huygens.(Springer, 2009) [https://books.google.com/books?id=CBx9KDH1qaYC&dq=Feia+Lacus&pg=PA508 page 508].</ref>[[Image:lagoafeia.jpg|right|thumb|160px|Lagoa Feia in Brazil]]

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