Yes, "mare" is the Latin word for "sea". The lunar "seas" were so named by early astronomers because they though the lunar maria were seas like on Earth.
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The ancient lava flows on the Moon are often referred to as lunar maria. These features are dark, smooth plains created by volcanic activity early in the Moon's history.
Another name is satellite
Maria isn't a name of a moon, though it's what the dark areas on our own moon are called which were once though to be seas.
Maria ( singular is mare )
The "lunar maria".
Maria, crates, highlands. :)
The lighter areas of the Moon are called "highlands." These regions are composed primarily of anorthosite, a type of rock that is lighter in color compared to the darker basalt found in the Moon's maria, or lava plains. The highlands are more heavily cratered and generally represent the Moon's oldest surface.
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