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Mare Imbrium
[ im-bree-uhm ]
noun
- ( 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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It is about fifty-six miles across, and its interior falls to a depth of 8,000 feet below the Mare Imbrium.
The Mare Imbrium, covering 340,000 square miles, is sparingly dotted over with craters.
The Mare Imbrium, according to this view, has been the seat of a collision to which the surrounding lunar scenery is due.
The northern slopes of the Carpathians sink rapidly towards the shores of the vast Mare Imbrium.
We came to the ledge with the plains of the Mare Imbrium stretching out beneath us.
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