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The feature that covers much of the Moon's surface is called the maria, which are large, dark, basaltic plains formed by ancient volcanic eruptions. The maria are mainly located on the side of the Moon facing Earth.
The maria's on the moon were formed by meteors slamming into it.
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 had 15 years old!
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Maria is latin for sea. They are actually large basaltic lava flows from the period when the moon still had a molten core.
Maria, or "seas", which is what "maria" means.
Unlike the earth's moon, Mercury does not have maria.
The maria (Latin: "seas", singular "mare") are dark areas of the moon that were formed by ancient dark lava flowsAny of the large, low-lying dark areas on the Moon or on Mars or other inner planets.The lunar maria are believed to consist of volcanic basalts.
this means that there is a preferably dark spot on the moon or seas of the moon or plains on the moon
When Galileo looked through his telescope at the moon, he saw dark, flat parts of the moon's surface which he called maria.
Maria are large, dark, basaltic plains on the moon. Galileo named these places 'maria' after the Latin word for sea because he thought they looked like oceans.