Mare Crisium

[ mahr-ey kree-see-uhm, mair-ee ]

noun

1. ( Sea of Crises ) a dark plain in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 66,000 sq. mi. (170,000 sq. km).

Example Sentences

I suspect that the science behind some of these developments is less than 100% sound, though Emmerich and his co-writers have cooked up some reasonably convincing explanations: “The hole is in the Mare Crisium!”

From Los Angeles Times

Then it will use its main engine to brake for a soft touchdown between Mare Serenitatis and Mare Crisium, two of the dark lava seas on the Earth-facing side of the Moon.

From BBC

In 2023, the first lander built by Firefly Aerospace, for example, will carry a heat probe and an electromagnetic sounder to a nearside lava basin called Mare Crisium, which boasts some of the Moon’s thinnest crust.

From Science Magazine

But until this decade nothing, robot or human, had landed on the Moon since August 9th 1976, when Luna 24, a probe belonging to the Soviet Union, set itself down in Mare Crisium, just north of the lunar equator.

From Economist

The three biggest mascons, corresponding to Mare Imbrium, Mare Serenitatis and Mare Crisium, are visible on the upper right-hand side.

From Economist