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walled plain

noun

  1. a circular or almost circular area on the moon, sometimes with a floor that is depressed, usually partially enclosed by walls that rise to varying heights and that are usually lower than those of a crater.


walled plain

noun

  1. any of the largest of the lunar craters, having diameters between 50 and 300 kilometres
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Moving almost due south, we passed the large but partially ruined walled plain known as Maginus.

It was a wonderful sunset effect in that mountain-dotted, mountain-walled plain, the San Luis Valley.

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