What is Ontario Lacus?
{{Infobox |name=Infobox/doc |title='''Ontario Lacus''' |image=[[Image:Lacus Ontario.jpg|320px]] |caption=Ontario Lacus is the dark shape near the centre-left of this image of [[Titan (moon)|Titan]]'s south pole. |header1=Feature on Titan |label2=Type ||data2=Lacus |label3=Latitude ||data3=72S |label4=Longitude||data4=183W |label5=Diameter ||data5= {{convert|235|km|abbr=on}} |label6=Eponym ||data6=[[Lake Ontario]] |below= }} '''Ontario Lacus''' is a lake filled with [[methane]] and [[ethane]] near the south pole of [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]]'s moon [[Titan (moon)|Titan]]. It was identified as a [[hydrocarbon]] lake and confirmed<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20080730.html| title=NASA Confirms Liquid Lake On Saturn Moon| date=2007-07-30| accessdate=2007-07-30| publisher=NASA| archive-date=2011-10-09| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009110341/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20080730.html| url-status=dead}}</ref> by data from the [[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]] spacecraft. This discovery was announced in the 31 July 2008 edition of ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''. Ontario Lacus is about 20,000 km<sup>2</sup> in area, and is named after [[Lake Ontario]] in [[North America]], which is a similar size and shape. ==References== <references/> ==Other websites== *{{cite news | author=Staff | date=2008-08-03 | title=Titan's Ethane Lake | publisher=Astrobiology Magazine | url=http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2829&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 | accessdate=2008-08-05 | archive-date=2010-03-13 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100313020403/http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload | url-status=dead }} {{Solar System}} [[Category:Saturn's moons]] [[Category:Lakes]] {{sci-stub}}