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Feature on the moon
Mare Crisium
LRO image
Coordinates
17°00′N59°06′E / 17.0°N 59.1°E / 17.0; 59.1
Diameter
556 km (345 mi)[1]
Mare Crisium/ˈkrɪsiəm/ (Latin crisium, the "Sea of Crises") is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. Mare Crisium is a basin of Nectarian age.[2]
^Cite error: The named reference USGS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^The geologic history of the Moon. USGS Professional Paper 1348. By Don E. Wilhelms, John F. McCauley, and Newell J. Trask. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington: 1987. Table 9-3.
MareCrisium /ˈkrɪsiəm/ (Latin crisium, the "Sea of Crises") is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis...
attributes (Mare Australe, Mare Orientale, Mare Cognitum, Mare Marginis), or states of mind (MareCrisium, Mare Ingenii, Mare Serenitatis, Mare Tranquillitatis)...
Crisium may refer to: MareCrisium Križevci in Croatia, Crisium in Latin This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Crisium. If...
Nectarian epoch. The mare material is of the Upper Imbrian epoch and is relatively thin compared to the neighboring MareCrisium or Mare Tranquillitatis....
Crisium, Fecunditatis, and Serenitatis basins with two throughgoing rings of the Procellarum basin. Palus Somni, on the northeastern rim of the mare,...
important differences; for example, mare basalts show a large negative europium anomaly. The type location is MareCrisium sampled by Luna 24. KREEP Basalts...
within the Crisium basin, Mare Anguis is a part of the Nectarian System, meaning that it was formed during the Nectarian time period. Like most mare, the surface...
sample return missions were Luna 16 and Luna 20). The probe landed in MareCrisium (Sea of Crises). The mission returned 170.1 g (6.00 oz) of lunar samples...
raised rings formed by the impact that created the MareCrisium. The selenographic coordinates of this mare are 7.5° N, 68.7° E. It has a maximum diameter...
contained in the Crisium basin, surrounding MareCrisium. The surrounding basin material is of the Nectarian epoch, while the mare basalt being of the...
despite an otherwise successful flight, the subsequent Ranger 7 mission to Mare Cognitum was a complete success. Breaking the six-year string of failures...
(military) Greaves (crater), a lunar crater near the southwest edge of MareCrisium Greaves (food), an edible by-product of the rendering process Greaves...
the spacecraft tipped over on its side and was damaged upon landing in MareCrisium. The sample collecting apparatus could not operate and no samples were...
USA Picard, Quebec, Canada Picard (crater), a lunar impact crater in MareCrisium Picard (name), a French surname (includes a list of people with this...
Caspian', referring to MareCrisium, which he had named after the Caspian Sea), and Michael van Langren had labelled it the Mare Venetum ("Venetian Sea")...
briefly misidentified as a mare and named Mare Desiderii (Sea of Desire). It is no longer recognized. Other former maria include: Mare Parvum ("Small Sea")...
Maksutov (crater) McKellar (crater) Mare Australe Mare Frigoris Mare Humboldtianum Mare Ingenii Mare Moscoviense Mare Orientale Mendeleev (crater) Michelson...
Apollo 11. During descent, a malfunction caused Luna 15 to crash in MareCrisium about two hours before Armstrong and Aldrin took off from the Moon's...
Mons Latreille is a solitary lunar mountain in central MareCrisium. This feature was named by the IAU in May 2021, after Pierre André Latreille, a French...
extraterrestrial meteorite impact structure that is comparable in size to the MareCrisium on the Moon. In the same volume, Wilson evaluates Beals' interpretation...
February 2021, NASA selected Firefly Aerospace for a CLPS launch to MareCrisium in mid-2023. The VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)...
return a sample from MareCrisium Luna 24 E-8-5M No.413 Sample return 9 August 1976 Proton-K/D Successful Landed in MareCrisium (12.25 N, 62.20 E) at...
wrinkle ridge system at 19°54′N 64°12′E / 19.9°N 64.2°E / 19.9; 64.2 in MareCrisium on the Moon. It is 188 km long and was named after Soviet geologist Mikhail...
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