Key facts
- Diameter
- 556 km (345 mi)
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- Image
- Mare Crisium - Clementine.jpg
- Length
- 556
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- Mare Crisium
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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.
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