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seas of clouds

One of the lunar seas
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seas of clouds ( Latin Mare Nubium )It is an ancient and full of solidification in the cloud sea basin on the front of the moon Magma or Lava , a lowland with slightly undulating surface, located at Storm ocean In the southeast, it is one of the seven largest lunar seas on the moon, with a diameter of 715 kilometers and an area of about 254000 square kilometers.
Chinese name
seas of clouds
Foreign name
Mare Nubium
geographical position
The front of the moon
Image publishing time
2009

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The "Yunhai Basin" where Yunhai is located has been identified as Pre Jiuhai Period As a part of the system, the surrounding geology of the basin is Early Yuhai , the lava forming the cloud sea is formed in Late Yuhai Moon Sea To the west is Elatosnian Blio crater, which means that the crater Moon Sea Younger. Located on the edge of the south of the moon is the Pitatus crater, and Tycho Ring Mountain The bright ray beam runs through the entire moon sea from south to northwest. In the southern part of the month, between the Burt crater and the Sabit crater, there is also a fault Structure - 125km long and 240m high Straight wall

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Like most other lunar seas on the moon, Cloud Sea was also named by Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, whose naming system created in 1651 has become a standardized lunar place name. Previously, William Gilbert It has been included in the "Meridionalis" in his 1600 lunar map, and the Dutch astronomer Michael Florent van Langlun marked it as "Borbonicum" in his 1645 map.

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The first image released was in 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter The lunar highland 200 kilometers south of the sea of clouds was photographed.

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In September 2013, Spanish astronomers observed and recorded the impact event of a large rock hitting the surface of the lunar cloud sea.