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Some Mares of The Moon
June 17th, 2015
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The moon is, as explained by the astronauts, is a plain and level area just like the surface of the earth. Though it is devoid of the type of gravitational pull on the earth, it is still with different plains and other features. Perhaps, the most notable features that occupy the moon are the mares. There are very many mares in the moon, and they are labeled as dark, large or basaltic plains or surfaces. As created in the year 1651 by an astronomer named Giovanni Battista Riccioli, the moon, apart from the Maria are also made up of Oceanus, lacus, palus and sinus. However, the mares in the moon include the mare unguis. This has its English name as the serpent sea. It is placed at latitude of 22.6°N and longitude 67.7°E with a diameter of 150. The next is the mare australe, which means the southern sea, at latitude of 38.9° S and longitude of 93. 0° E. the diameter is E 603. The mare cognitum means the sea that has become known. It is at latitude of 10.0° S, longitude of 23.1° W and 376Km diameter. There is also the mare crisium, which means the sea of crises and mare fecunditatis meaning sea of fecundity. This is at latitude 7.8° S, and longitude 51.3° E, and at 909KM diameter. There is also Mare Frigoris which is the Sea of Cold, Mare Humboldtianum, the Sea of Alexander von Humboldt, Mare Humorum, which is the Sea of Moisture, Mare Imbrium, the Sea of Showers, Mare Ingenii, the Sea of Cleverness, Mare Insularum, the Sea of Islands and Mare Marginis, the Sea of the Edge…etc. Mare Moscoviense means the Sea of Muscovy. It is at latitude 27.3 ° N and longitude 147.9 ° E and at 277KM diameter. Mare Nectaris is the Sea of Nectar. Its latitude is of 15.2° S and longitude is 35.5° E, with 333KM diameter. There is also the Mare Nubium, the Sea of Clouds at 21.3° S and 16.6° W latitude and longitude respectively, and 715Km diameter. Others are Mare Orientale, which is the Eastern Sea, Mare Serenitatis, which is the Sea of Serenity, Mare Undarum, which is sea of Waves and Mare Vaporum, which is the Sea of Vapors. Can you Identify the correct Mare of the Moon? Image courtesy of: http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/11751/1/1/how-to-draw-the-moon.htm |
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