Mare Chronium

American  

[kroh-nee-uhm] / ˈkroʊ ni əm /

noun

1. an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.

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Example Sentences

If I were right, I ought to hit another grey plain, the Mare Chronium in another couple of hundred miles, and then another orange desert, Thyle I or II.

From A Martian Odyssey by Weinbaum, Stanley Grauman

Thyle II spread out like an orange carpet, and after a while we came to the grey branch of the Mare Chronium that bounded it.

From Valley of Dreams by Weinbaum, Stanley Grauman

It was just before twilight that I reached the edge of Thyle, and looked down over the gray Mare Chronium.

From A Martian Odyssey by Weinbaum, Stanley Grauman

I think he could have crossed the Mare Chronium in a couple of hours with those block-long nose dives of his, but he stuck along with me.

From A Martian Odyssey by Weinbaum, Stanley Grauman

Mare Chronium was just the same sort of place as this—crazy leafless plants and a bunch of crawlers; I gave it a glance and hauled out my sleeping bag.

From A Martian Odyssey by Weinbaum, Stanley Grauman