page_title: Sotonera Lacus
hierarchical_section_title: Sotonera Lacus
caption_attribution_description: English: Cassini false-color mosaic of synthetic-aperture radar images of part of Titan's north polar region. Part of the mapped region is covered by what is interpreted as liquid hydrocarbon lakes. These bodies are most likely filled with liquid ethane, methane and dissolved nitrogen. Features thought to be liquid are shown in blue and black, and the areas likely to be solid surface are tinted brown. The hydrocarbon lake at center is Bolsena Lacus; to its upper right is the smaller Sotonera Lacus. Areas without data are in white. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the United States and several European countries. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm The original NASA image has been modified by rotating 90 degrees clockwise, cropping and converting from tif to jpeg format.
context_page_description: Sotonera Lacus is one of a number of hydrocarbon lakes found on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
  Sotonera Lacus is located near the north pole of Titan, centered on latitude 76.75°N and longitude 17.49°W, and measures 63 km in length. It is situated in a north polar region where the majority of Titan's large lakes are found.
  The lake is composed of liquid methane and ethane, and was detected by the space probe Cassini. It was named in 2007 after Lake Sotonera in Spain.
context_section_description: Sotonera Lacus is one of a number of hydrocarbon lakes found on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
  Sotonera Lacus is located near the north pole of Titan, centered on latitude 76.75°N and longitude 17.49°W, and measures 63 km in length. It is situated in a north polar region where the majority of Titan's large lakes are found.
  The lake is composed of liquid methane and ethane, and was detected by the space probe Cassini. It was named in 2007 after Lake Sotonera in Spain.
caption: False-color Cassini synthetic aperture radar image of hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Bolsena Lacus is at center, with Sotonera Lacus to its upper right.
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