Mare Cimmerium

[si-meer-ee-uhm]

noun

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

Example Sentences

And I knew there was seventy-five miles of that to be walked over, and then a p. 5 couple of hundred miles of that Xanthus desert, and about as much more Mare Cimmerium.

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I figured that we were right p. 3 in our guess, then, and this grey plain we dropped on was really the Mare Cimmerium which would make my orange desert the region called Xanthus.

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He squinted through the port at the gray gloom of the Mare Cimmerium.

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