Ngami Lacuna

{{Short description|Lake on Titan}} {{Infobox feature on celestial object |name = Ngami Lacuna |image = PIA17470 Titan northern hemisphere.jpg |caption = False-color near infrared view of Titan's northern hemisphere, showing its seas and lakes |type = Lacus |coordinates = {{coord|66.7|N|213.9|W|globe:titan_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} |diameter = 37.2 |eponym = }} '''Ngami Lacuna''' is a feature on Saturn's largest moon, [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], believed to be the currently dry bed of an [[intermittent lake|intermittent]] [[Lakes of Titan|hydrocarbon lake]].

When full, the lake would be 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> It was detected in 2007 by the ''[[Cassini–Huygens]]'' [[space craft|space probe]].

Ngami Lacuna is located at coordinates 66.7°[[North|N]] and 213.9°[[West|W]] on Titan's [[globe]] and is 37.2 [[Kilometre|km]] in [[diameter]].<ref name = "USGS">{{cite web | title = Ngami Lacuna | website = planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov | publisher = [[USGS]] | url = https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/14789 | accessdate = 2013-12-28}}</ref> It is named after [[Lake Ngami]], in [[Botswana]],<ref name = "USGS"/> and like its [[earth|terrestrial]] namesake is considered to be [[Endorheic basin|endorheic]].

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