Mare Nubium

[ mahr-ey noo-bee-uhm, nyoo-, mair-ee ]

noun

1. ( Sea of Clouds ) a dark plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 95,000 sq. mi. (245,000 sq. km).

Example Sentences

And last fall the moon took the biggest impact we've ever seen, when a huge meteorite slammed into the area known as the Mare Nubium basin.

From Scientific American

Thus the Mare Humorum has swept away half the wall of the rings, Hippalus and Doppelmayer, and far out in the open plain of the Mare Nubium, great circles like Kies, and that immediately north of Flamsteed, stand up in faint relief as of half-submerged rings.

From Project Gutenberg

That," Van was saying, "is a prominent crater near the Mare Nubium.

From Project Gutenberg

We landed at the northern tip of Mare Nubium, just off Regiomontanus, and, after planting a flag with appropriate throat-catching ceremony, had swung into the realities of the tasks we had practiced on so many dry runs back on Earth.

From Project Gutenberg

"The other side of Mare Nubium—in the Riphaen Mountains," he babbled excitedly.

From Project Gutenberg