Mare (pl: maria)

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4489.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4489. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Solar System, Planetary Physics

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A dark lunar plain. The name, which is Latin for `sea', was first used on maps of the Moon in the seventeenth century, when astronomers believed the Moon to be Earthlike, and that the light and dark areas were land (sometimes called `terrae') and water. In fact the maria are composed of basalt, solidified lava which erupted between 3 and 4 billion years ago after the Moon had suffered large impac...

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