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Fra Mauro

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[frah mahr-oh, maw-roh] / ˈfrɑ ˈmɑr oʊ, ˈmɔ roʊ /

noun

  1. a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 50 miles (80 km) in diameter.


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An inaccurate landing would also affect plans for next spring's scheduled Apollo 13 visit to a highlands area near Crater Fra Mauro.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fra Mauro is a particularly interesting highland area.

From Time Magazine Archive

It lifted off into the hazy Florida skies in a cloud of flame and, only six-tenths of a second late, headed toward the hilly highlands near the lunar crater Fra Mauro, 246,000 miles away.

From Time Magazine Archive

By landing at Fra Mauro, the astronauts may be able to find many differing geological clues to the lunar past, all within a single compact area.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is just the same kind of error that is made about those great Eastern Rivers by Fra Mauro in his Map.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule

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