Mare Australe

American  

[aw-stral-ee, -strey-lee] / ɔˈstræl i, -ˈstreɪ li /

noun

1. (Southern Sea ) an area near the south pole of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.

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Example Sentences

Here and there is a large sea, like that marked 'Mare Australe,' but otherwise the water and the land are strangely intermingled.

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We veered south, toward the Mare Australe, and followed the edge of the desert.

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Off to the southeast, just at the edge of the Mare Australe, was a valley—the first irregularity I'd seen on Mars except the cliffs that bounded Xanthus and Thyle II.

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We circled the place; the canal went out into the Mare Australe, and there, glittering in the south, was the melting polar ice-cap!

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MARINUS.—A ring-plain on the N.E. side of the Mare Australe, between Furnerius and the limb.

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