Key facts
- Diameter
- 276 km
- Eponym
- Sea of Muscovy
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lunar mare
- Named after
- Moscow
- Image
- Mare Moscoviense - Clementine.jpg
- Length
- 276
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- located on astronomical body
- Moon
- located in/on physical feature
- far side of the Moon
- Commons category
- Mare Moscoviense
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Encyclopedic overview
Mare Moscoviense (Latin for 'Sea of Moscovy'; /ˌmɒskəviˈɛnsi/ MOSK-ə-vee-EN-see) is a lunar mare that sits in the Moscoviense basin. It is one of the very few maria on the far side of the Moon.
Geology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mare Moscoviense” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.