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1882 chart of the moon with maria. This is a list of maria (large, dark, basaltic plains) on the Moon. It includes other basaltic plains, including the one oceanus as well as features known by the names lacus, palus and sinus. The modern system of lunar nomenclature was introduced in 1651 by Giovanni Battista Riccioli. [1]
Lunar maria (singular mare) are large, dark, regions of the Moon. They do not contain any water, but are believed to have been formed from molten rock from the Moon's mantle coming out onto the surface of the Moon. This list also includes the one oceanus and the features known by the names lacus, palus and sinus.
The maria cover about 16% of the lunar surface, mostly on the side visible from Earth. The few maria on the far side are much smaller, residing mostly in very large craters. The traditional nomenclature for the Moon also includes one oceanus (ocean), as well as features with the names lacus ('lake'), palus ('marsh'), and sinus ('bay'). The last ...
See List of maria on the Moon. Note that Mare Desiderii is no longer recognized by the IAU. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 ...
'Ocean of Storms') is a vast lunar mare on the western edge of the near side of the Moon. It is the only one of the lunar maria to be called an "Oceanus" (ocean), due to its size: Oceanus Procellarum is the largest of the maria ("seas"), stretching more than 2,500 km (1,600 mi) across its north–south axis and covering roughly 4,000,000 km 2 ...
Like most of the other maria on the Moon, Mare Humorum was named by Giovanni Riccioli, whose 1651 nomenclature system has become standardized. [6] Previously, the 17th century astronomer Pierre Gassendi had named it Anticaspia ('opposite to the Caspian', referring to Mare Crisium, which he had named after the Caspian Sea), [7] and Michael van Langren had labelled it the Mare Venetum ("Venetian ...
Like most of the other maria on the Moon, Mare Nubium was named by Giovanni Riccioli, whose 1651 nomenclature system has become standardized. [6] Previously, William Gilbert had included it among the Continens Meridionalis ("Southern Continent") in his map of c.1600, [7] and Michael van Langren had labelled it the Mare Borbonicum (after the House of Bourbon) in his 1645 map.
This is a list of species that have landed on the Moon, only including landings in which the payload survived. This list currently contains 10 species. This list currently contains 10 species. Before 2019, only animals (in particular one species, Homo sapiens ) landed on the Moon; in January 2019, plants and fungi also landed on the Moon.