Mare Imbrium
Americannoun
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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 • Jul. 19, 2019
On 14 December 2013, China's Chang'e-3 touched down in the Mare Imbrium carrying a near-UV telescope.
From Science Magazine • Jul. 18, 2019
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 • Jul. 7, 2019
This view of Mare Imbrium also shows numerous secondary craters and evidence of material ejected from the large crater Copernicus on the upper horizon.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
On its eastern side the Caucasus and the Apennines shut it in, except for a strait a hundred miles broad, by means of which it is connected with the Mare Imbrium.
From Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Serviss, Garrett Putman
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