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Also known as Rima Hadley, this [[rille]] is located within Mare Imbrium and is near the location of the [[Apollo 15]] moon landing in an area calle

...n in this image, which is reddish to the southeast, dominated by excavated mare lava, and bluish to the northwest, caused by the excavation of highland mat

...eform the lunar surface. Examples of these forces include the formation of mare ridges and arcuate rilles, along with relatively weak moonquakes. The force ...telescopes, around the lunar basins. A particularly stunning set occurs on Mare Humorum.

This is a list of ''[[lunar mare|maria]]'' (singular ''mare'') on the [[Moon]]. | [[Mare Anguis]]

...ng for geologic concentrations of KREEP-bearing materials. The rim of Mare Imbrium is neatly traced by thorium's gamma ray emissions as detected by [[Lunar Pr

...P is mainly concentrated in the area of [[Oceanus Procellarum]] and [[Mare Imbrium]]. This unusual geological region is now referred to as the [[Procellarum ...samples are believed to have originated after the impact which formed the Imbrium basin[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v336/n6201/abs/336751a0.html].

...arded $97 million and has proposed to fly as many as four payloads to Mare Imbrium, a lava plain in one of the Moon’s craters, by September 2020." <ref name

...s concentrated in the [[Oceanus Procellarum]] (Ocean of Storms) and [[Mare Imbrium]] (Sea of Rains) with a major concentration south of [[Crater Copernicus]].

#[http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/5 Apollo Basin: Mare in the Sea of Highlands] #[http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/6 Chain of Secondary Craters in Mare Orientale]

...ejecta forms a ‘hummocky’ terrain (examples of this can be seen around the Imbrium basin as the Fra Maruo formation, and around the Nectaris Basin as the Jans ...er 15 meters thick on the lunar highlands, and up to 8 meters thick on the mare. Because the regolith is so thick, it acts as a protective shield to the