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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Mare Chronium

They went bouncing by across Xanthus just as they'd bounced by us back in the Mare Chronium.

From A Martian Odyssey by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

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 Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

I decided to sleep on the plateau if possible; anything dangerous, I reasoned, would be more likely to prowl through the vegetation of the Mare Chronium than the sand of Xanthus.

From A Martian Odyssey by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

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 Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

Well, we plugged along across the Mare Chronium all that day, and all the next.

From A Martian Odyssey by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

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