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Q: What are the flat dark areas on the moon?
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Dark flat areas on the Moon's surface?

A "Maria", which is translated into "sea".


What are The dark flat areas on the moon are called?

Dark maira of seas


What is Dark flat areas on the moon surface?

A "Maria", which is translated into "sea".


What is the name of the dark flat areas found on the surface of the moon?

Maria


What do you call dark flat areas on the moon's surface?

A "Maria", which is translated into "sea".


What are the light and dark areas on the moon?

the light areas of the moon are called the highlands. the dark areas are called maria.


What are large dark flat-areas found on the hemispherical surface facing the Earth called?

Large dark areas on the Moon are called "maria", Latin for "seas", because the ancients who observed the Moon with the naked eye thought that they resembled the seas that they were familiar with.


What is the main type of terrain on the moon?

The dark areas that form the 'man in the moon' are large flat plains called maria and the brighter parts of the moon are the lunar highlands and the mountain ranges.


What is the two main type of terrain on the moon?

The dark areas that form the 'man in the moon' are large flat plains called maria and the brighter parts of the moon are the lunar highlands and the mountain ranges.


Galileo called the dark flat parts on the moon what?

Dark plains


What are dark flat areas on the moon's surface?

The large flat areas on the moon are called "Maria" (Latin for "seas", because the early astronomers thought that's what they are). They are huge regions of smooth rock. If very dark, they are so by being in shadows. Smaller dark spots are meteor-impact crater floors in the shadows of the crater wall.


What are the dark flat parts on moon?

Luna's (Earth's moon's) apparent dark spots are giant "dust puddles." They are areas with large collections of dry sediment. Such things are best avoided, since they can be very deep, and therefor deadly.