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Fra Mauro

American  
[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 probably also covered by other layers of debris that were spewed out by the meteorite impacts that created the craters Eratosthenes and Copernicus.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It certainly is a stark place here at Fra Mauro," he said.

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

The deep indent on the middle of the W. African coast, noticed in several other maps and even in Fra Mauro, appears here on a great scale.

From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II by Zurara, Gomes Eannes de

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