Key facts
- Diameter
- 294 km (183 mi)
- Eponym
- Eastern Sea
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lunar mare
- Named after
- east
- Image
- Mare Orientale (Lunar Orbiter 4).png
- Length
- 294
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- Commons category
- Mare Orientale
- located on astronomical body
- Moon
- located in/on physical feature
- far side of the Moon
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Encyclopedic overview
Mare Orientale (/ˌɔːriənˈteɪli/; from Latin mare orientāle 'eastern sea') is a lunar mare. It is located on the western border of the near side and far side of the Moon, and is difficult to see from an Earthbound perspective. Images from spacecraft have revealed it to be one of the most striking large-scale lunar features, resembling a target ring bullseye.
Geology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mare Orientale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.