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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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That would mean certain regions, such as the Mare Imbrium, or “Sea of Rains,” might be as much as 200 million years older than scientists once thought.

From Scientific American Jul. 24, 2023

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

We searched all the territory from the camp to the Planetara, and off to the foot-crags of Archimedes, and a score of miles into the flatness of the Mare Imbrium.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 by Bates, Harry

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