The seas of the moon

On the clearest nights, in those moments when you look up to the immensity of our eternal celestial roof , it is very possible that you will appreciate the seas of the Moon .They cover great kilometers, they do not raise any waves and they are those spaces where everything curious, put their eyes through the telescopes to warn their mysteries from the antiquity.

They are dark spaces that border our beautiful satellite, numerous seas, lakes and also blinds that have the most suggestive names, but don't let your imagination go beyond the simple mirage of those dark shadows that you can appreciate from afar, because are not really seas , but large dark desert plains without a trace of water.Only lunar dust and loneliness.We invite you to know more about these supposed lunar seas.

The moon and its silent seas

There are many who wonder why all these lunar regions are l I simply lick "seas". This Latin word derives from the Latin "mare", being its plural "maria" .We have to think that In the past, our astronomers had very simple instruments to scrutinize the mysteries of our universe.Hence, for example, when they saw all these dark regions they immediately remembered our own oceans seen at night.They should be seas.What could they be? In fact, those spaces seen from afar? And that's how they started giving them a name.

The seas of the moon

But the advance of technology, always unstoppable, made them see their mistake time later, but even so, they preferred not to change such poetic names for our goddess Selene. In fact they even made history, we have only to remember that in 1969 the Apollo XI landed precisely in one of them: the Sea of Tranquility.

The seas of the moon are easily seen from our distance.They are dark colored surfaces where sunlight barely reaches, where deep basins sink, large basaltic cavities .But how did they occur? In fact they are a result of a long process, thousands of years suffering the incessant impact of meteorites on the crust of our beloved satellite, causing large impact holes.Later, they were filled by magma from the lunar mantle.Although scientists explain to us that most of these volcanic eruptions, originated precisely from the impacts of opening fissures in the satellite, letting basaltic lava flow over extended periods.

The seas of the moon

So, as you see, they are not authentic seas, the real image is something more bleak than what our astronomers of the past imagined through its rudimentary instruments.Tell you also as a curiosity, that the seas of the Moon are more abundant in that closest face to us and not so in the call hidden face , or distant face, what e lacks almost completely these formations.The reason for this mystery? Basically because in that period in which he suffered the impact of the meteorites, the Earth made of «parapet» for the collisions after its formation, at the same time that the other side suffered the incessant attack.Once, since one part of the Moon had more basalt, it also made that, due to the effect of gravitation, that face was more oriented to us than the other where they can barely be appreciated.

The seas of the moon

Names of the seas of the Moon

Once the origin of the lunar seas is clear, we also invite you to know their names.We are sure you will love them.

Mare Anguis, Sea of the Snake 22.6 ° N 67.7 ° E 150 km Mare Australe, Mar Austral 38.9 ° S 93.0 ° E 603 km Mare Cognitum, Known Sea 10, 0 ° S 23.1 ° W 376 km Mare Crisium , Sea of Crisis 17.0 ° N 59.1 ° E 418 km Mare Fœcunditatis, Sea of Fertility 7.8 ° S 51.3 ° E 909 km Mare Frigoris, Mar del Frio 56.0 ° N 1.4 ° E 1596 km Mare Humboldtianum, Sea of Alexander von Humboldt 56.8 ° N 81.5 ° E 273 km Mare Humorum , Sea of Humidity 24 , 4 ° S 38.6 ° W 389 km Mare Imbrium, Rain Sea 32.8 ° N 15.6 ° W 1123 km Mare Ingenii, Mar del Ingenio 33.7 ° S 163.5 ° E 318 km Mare Insularum , Sea of Islands 7.5 ° N 30.9 ° W 513 km Mare Marginis, Marginal Sea 13.3 ° N 86.1 ° E 420 km Mare Moscoviense, Sea of Moscow 27.3 ° N 147.9 ° E 277 km Mare Nectaris , Mar del Nectar 15.2 ° S 35.5 ° E 333 km Mare Nubium, Sea of Clouds 21.3 ° S 16.6 ° O 715 km Mare Orientale, East Sea 19.4 ° S 92.8 ° W 327 km Mare Serenitatis, Sea of Serenity 28.0 ° N 17.5 ° E 707 km Mare Smy thii, William Henry Smyth Sea 1.3 ° N 87.5 ° E 373 km Mare Spumans, Sparkling Sea 1.1 ° N 65.1 ° E 139 km Mare Tranquillitatis , Sea of Tranquility 8.5 ° N 31.4 ° E 873 km Mare Undarum, Sea of Waves 6.8 ° N 68.4 ° E 243 km Mare Vaporum, Sea of Vapors 13.3 ° N 3.6 ° E 245 km Oceanus Procellarum, Ocean of Storms 18.4 ° N 57.4 ° O 2568 km

The seas of the moon

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