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    Mare Imbrium /ˈɪmbriəm/ (Latin imbrium, the "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains") is a vast lava plain within the Imbrium Basin on the Moon and is one of...
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    sea features (Mare Humorum, Mare Imbrium, Mare Insularum, Mare Nubium, Mare Spumans, Mare Undarum, Mare Vaporum, Oceanus Procellarum, Mare Frigoris), sea...
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    Mare Serenitatis /sɪˌrɛnɪˈteɪtɪs/ (Latin serēnitātis, the "Sea of Serenity") is a lunar mare located to the east of Mare Imbrium on the Moon. Its diameter...
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    have been formed from ejecta, or debris, from the impact which formed Mare Imbrium. During Apollo 14, the crew members sampled ejecta from Cone crater,...
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    Retrieved 2020-12-26. "Mare Humorum". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. Astrogeology Science Center. Retrieved 2020-12-26. "Mare Imbrium". Gazetteer of Planetary...
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    fairly old. This range forms the southeastern border of the large Mare Imbrium lunar mare and the northwestern border of the Terra Nivium highland region...
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    the landing site: to sample lunar highland material older than that at Mare Imbrium and to investigate the possibility of relatively recent volcanic activity...
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    Alpes range. It extends 166 km from the Mare Imbrium basin, trending east-northeast to the edge of the Mare Frigoris. The valley is narrow at both ends...
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    Serenitatis and the southeast rim of Mare Imbrium. It was named by Giovanni Battista Riccioli in 1651. The mare lies in an old basin or crater that is...
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    the IAU, the crater was known as Basin XIV. Mare Ingenii is located at the antipode of the Mare Imbrium impact basin. The furrowed crater walls of the...
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