Mare Imbrium

American  

[im-bree-uhm] / ˈɪm bri əm /

noun

1. (Sea of Showers ) a dark plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon: about 340,000 sq. mi. (880,000 sq. km).

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Example Sentences

In a paper published in the journal Science in 2015, a different group of Chinese researchers described a complex geology of nine distinct layers below Mare Imbrium, a lava plain on the moon’s near side where China’s earlier mission, Chang’e-3, had landed.

From New York Times

So is the Soviets’ magnificent, eight-wheeled Lunokhod 1, the first lunar rover, which in 1970 trundled around the Mare Imbrium, or Sea of Rains.

From The Guardian

On 14 December 2013, China's Chang'e-3 touched down in the Mare Imbrium carrying a near-UV telescope.

From Science Magazine

The craft touched down in the Mare Imbrium region in 2013 and carried a ground-penetrating radar instrument.

From Nature

One of the firms, Orbit Beyond of Edison, New Jersey, intends to send a lander to the Mare Imbrium lava plain on the Moon as early as the third quarter of 2020.

From Nature