Mare Nectaris
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COLOMBO.—A fine ring-plain, about 50 miles in diameter, situated in the highlands separating the Mare Foecunditatis and the Mare Nectaris.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger
In the southern division is seen Mare Nectaris, the Sea of Nectar, over whose soft heaving billows she is gently wafted by Love's caressing winds, "Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the helm."
From All Around the Moon by Edward Roth
An especially fine cleft originates on the E. side of this crater, which, following an undulating course over the Mare Nectaris, terminates at Rosse, N. of Fracastorius.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger
BEAUMONT.—A ring-plain about 30 miles in diameter, on the S.E. side of the Mare Nectaris, midway between Theophilus and Fracastorius, with the N.E. side of which it is connected by a chain of large depressions.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger
ROSSE.—A fine bright deep crater in the Mare Nectaris, N. of the pointed termination of the W. wall of Fracastorius, with which it is connected by a bold curved ridge, with a crater upon it.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger
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