Lake Ontario
The largest lake in Titan’s Southern Hemisphere is named Ontario Lacus. Slightly smaller than it’s namesake – Lake Ontario – Ontario Lacus boasts many features reminiscent of earthly bodies of water.
Along the northern shoreline are flooded river valleys and hills more than half a mile high. A round-headed bay can be seen at the southeastern shore. And the middle western shoreline features the first delta observed on Titan.
The delta’s shape suggests that liquid first flowed in one channel from the higher plain and then switched at a later point. Such channel-switching deltas can be seen on Earth at the southern end of Lake Albert between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
