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It is the great walled plain, one of the finest on the Moon, known as the Mare
Crisium - the Sea of Crises. Three hundred miles in diameter, and almost completely surrounded by a ring of magnificent mountains, it had never been explored until we entered in the late summer of
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mission in 1972, facing north-northeast from an average altitude of 118 km on
Revolution 27 of the mission. At the right is the east margin of Mare Crisium, with the north tip of
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Mare
Crisium is 556 km (345 mi) in diameter, and 176,000 square kilometres (68,000 sq mi) in area. It has a very flat floor, with a ring of
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probe in 1969. A soil sample from Mare
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spacecraft in 1968. The mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters such as
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445:Low-altitude view of southern Mare Crisium from
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338:It is the site of the crash-landing of Soviet
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892:Felicitatis
826:Serenitatis
806:Moscoviense
730:Procellarum
716:Lunar maria
544:October 18,
403:Mare Anguis
309:Caspian Sea
230:Mare Anguis
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48:Coordinates
1082:Categories
1049:Putredinis
993:Concordiae
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475:References
319:'s map of
222:ray system
196:palimpsest
144:lunar mare
75:17.0; 59.1
1028:Successus
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907:Lenitatis
877:Bonitatis
821:Orientale
796:Insularum
447:Apollo 11
420:Cleomedes
395:Apollo 17
156:Nectarian
952:Temporis
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902:Hiemalis
867:Aestatis
811:Nectaris
801:Marginis
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751:Australe
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463:See also
142:") is a
87:Diameter
1037:Paludes
1013:Lunicus
1003:Honoris
978:Aestuum
957:Timoris
882:Doloris
872:Autumni
851:Vaporum
846:Undarum
836:Spumans
831:Smythii
791:Ingenii
786:Imbrium
781:Humorum
761:Crisium
723:Oceanus
680:YouTube
569:Bibcode
561:Science
455:Greaves
451:Shapley
431:America
424:Proclus
407:Eimmart
344:Luna 24
340:Luna 15
325:Britain
226:Proclus
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136:crisium
134:(Latin
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983:Amoris
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897:Gaudii
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210:Picard
207:crater
201:, and
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971:Sinus
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860:Lacus
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593:S2CID
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363:1996.
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158:age.
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