Key facts
- Diameter
- 556 km (345 mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lunar mare
- Image
- Mare Crisium - Clementine.jpg
- Length
- 556
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- Commons category
- Mare Crisium
- located on astronomical body
- Moon
- named by
- Giovanni Battista Riccioli
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Mare Crisium /ˈkrɪsiəm/ (Latin, '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. It was formed by the flooding of basaltic lava that filled an ancient asteroid impact.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mare Crisium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations