Mare Serenitatis (the "sea of serenity") is a lunar mare that sits just to the east of Mare Imbrium. It is located within the Serenitatis basin, which is of the Nectarian epoch.
Mare Fecunditatis
Mare Fecunditatis (the "Sea of Fecundity" or "Sea of Fertility") is a lunar mare 909 miles in diameter.
Definition: mare: Literally "sea" (a very bad misnomer, still in use for historical reasons really a large circular plain (plural: "maria"). _z_space_z_);
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Mare Basalt
This was collected from one of the darker areas on the moon known as . The mare formed billions of years ago. Large impacted the surface of the moon and broke up the .
mare Relatively dark-colored and smooth region on the surface of the Moon.
mass A measure of the total amount of matter contained within an object.
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a dark and relatively smooth area on the surface of the moon or a planet.
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MARE - Broad low plains surrounded by basin-forming mountains, originally thought to be a sea (pl. maria). This term is applied to the basalt-filled impact basins common on the face of the Moon visible from Earth.
Mare
An area on the moon that appears darker and smoother than its surroundings. Lunar maria are scattered basaltic flows. (plural is Maria)
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Mare basalt: Rocks making up the dark, smooth, mare areas of the Moon.
Mare "soil": Sediment on the surface of the lunar maria; fragments of basalt rocks, broken mineral grains, and glass produced by impact.
Mare
One of the lunar lowlands filled by successive flows of dark lava.
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Mare
latin word for "sea." Galileo thought the dark featureless areas on the Moon were bodies of water, even though the Moon is essentially devoid of liquid water.
Mare- literally "sea" (a very bad misnomer, still in use for historical reasons); really a large circular plain
Mass- amount of matter making up a body
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Mare and highland rocks differ in both appearance and chemical content. For example, mare rocks are richer in iron and poorer in aluminum than highland rocks. The maria consist largely of basalt, i.e., igneous rock formed from magma.
Mare Serenitatis (Sea of Serenity) is the more northerly one approaching the centerline of the Moon. Mare Crisium (Sea of Crises) is at the extreme east side.
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One of the smooth areas on the moon or on some of the other planets.
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MARE
(plural maria) Mare means "sea," but maria on the moon are plains on the moon. They are called maria because very early thought that these areas on the moon were great seas.
Mare
A term used to describe a large, circular plain. The word mare means "sea". On the Moon, the maria are the smooth, dark-colored areas.
Mare Geology
During the first part of the traverse, Conrad and Bean had gotten glimpses into the structure of the soil beneath their feet and the way that it had evolved.
Mare Nubilm, &c., 1901, November 21.
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Other numerical particulars relating to the moon are: Mean distance from the earth (earth's radius as I) .. 60.2634 Mean apparent diameter. .. 31 ' 51 5 Diameter in miles 2159.
Bluer mare areas contain more titanium than do the orange regions. For instance, the deep blue patch on the right, Mare Tranquillitatis, is richer in titanium than Mare Serenitatis, ...
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Once the huge mare lava eruptions had diminished, apparently the Moon's heat source had run down.
mare (pl. maria) (NASA SP-7, 1965) Latin for sea. The large, dark, flat areas on the lunar surface, thought by early astronomers to be bodies of water. The term is also applied to less well-defined areas on Mars.
Main article: Lunar mare
The dark and relatively featureless lunar plains which can clearly be seen with the naked eye are called maria (singular mare), Latin for seas, since they were believed by ancient astronomers to be filled with water.
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Appaloosa mare with bay colouring.[Credit: © Scott Smudsky]
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Mars images for 02 July 2003 by DC Parker showing a dust swirl streak south of Syrtis Major in Pandorae Fretum and Iapygia Mare, and dust cloud in northwest Hellas. This appears to be the beginning of a major dust storm. Figure 6-13.
Ancient observers of the moon believed that the dark regions on its face were oceans, giving rise to the Latin name mare ("sea"), which is still used today; the brighter regions were likewise held to be continents.
Mare. The name means "sea" and these are of course not seas, since there is no liquid water on the Moon (since there is no atmosphere). Their smooth, dark appearances caused early astronomers to give them this name.
On a night when the Moon is waning (beacoming smaller each night), you may see the Maria Mare Nectaris, Foecunditatis, Tranquillitatis, Crisium, and Serentatis.
The Moon's crust averages 68 km (42 miles) thick and varies from a thin layer under Mare Crisium to 107 km (66.5 miles) north of the crater Korolev on the lunar far side.
"The finding shows that the shoreline of Kraken Mare has been stable over the last three years and that Titan has an ongoing hydrological cycle that brings liquids to the surface," says Ralf Jaumann, ...
They are called lowlands or (more commonly) maria, the plural of the Latin word mare (meaning ocean or sea), because Galileo and other early telescope users thought they resembled large smooth areas of water.
The impact feature known as Mare Orientale (Eastern Sea) forms a prominent bullseye at left center, along the line between day and night, in this 1960s image from a Lunar Orbiter probe.
The dark areas are called maria (singular mare), the seas. They are in fact the solidified lava flows, which occurred after the formation of the lunar crust. Most of the "hills" are craters, not volcanoes.
The methods applied involve nuclear beta decay (KATRIN and MARE) or neutrinoless double beta decay (e.g. GERDA, CUORE/Cuoricino, NEMO 3 and others).
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The darker areas are the 'mare' regions. These are flat low lying regions. 'Mare' is the latin word for sea and at first it was thought that the darker areas of the surface were lunar oceans.
Giovanni Riccioli in 1651 named the more prominent features after famous astronomers, while the large dark and smooth areas he called "seas" or "maria" (singular "mare," mah-reh).
Mercury's surface is very similar in appearance to that of the Moon, showing extensive mare-like plains and heavy cratering, indicating that it has been geologically inactive for billions of years.
landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, in the lunar module (landing in the Mare Tranquilitatis), while Michael Collins orbited the moon in the command module.
It is divided into light areas called the Lunar Highlands and darker areas called Maria (literally, "seas"; the singular is Mare).
One of Galileo's lunar drawings.
Note the craters, mountains and mare or "seas". The terminator between lunar day and night is clearly seen down the centre.
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This image was taken by the telescope at the Lick Observatory. It clearly shows the maria (plural of mare) seen in the half Moon.
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When Chiron came looking for her, she asked the gods for help and was transformed into a mare.
The weaker component of a pulsar pulse when its period is more than half that of the main pulse, so that the subpulse occurs at progressively later intervals between successive main pulses. [H76]
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