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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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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

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 Harry Bates

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