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    Mare Orientale /ɔːriɛnˈteɪliː/ (Latin orientāle, the "eastern sea") is a lunar mare. It is located on the western border of the near side and far side...
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    attributes (Mare Australe, Mare Orientale, Mare Cognitum, Mare Marginis), or states of mind (Mare Crisium, Mare Ingenii, Mare Serenitatis, Mare Tranquillitatis)...
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    the Moon. This feature forms the outer ring of peaks surrounding the Mare Orientale impact basin, with the inner ring formed by the Montes Rook. The center...
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    immense Mare Orientale impact basin. The southwestern half of this walled plain has been heavily damaged by the mass of ejecta from Mare Orientale. This...
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    relatively strong magnetic field. It is also located at the antipode of the Mare Orientale impact basin, and may be associated with the formation of that feature...
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    crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the northwest of the Mare Orientale impact basin, in the outer skirt of ejecta surrounding the Montes Cordillera...
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    northeast of the Montes Cordillera mountain range that surrounds the Mare Orientale. To the east-northeast of Hartwig is the larger crater Riccioli. This...
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    the southern fringe of the huge skirt of ejecta that surrounds the Mare Orientale impact basin. To the south-southwest of Mendel is Lippmann, an even...
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    western limb. It lies in the western half of Mare Orientale, in the central basin amidst the lava-flooded lunar mare. To the east of this crater is the somewhat...
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    mountain range named the Montes Rook that forms a ring around the enormous Mare Orientale impact basin. To the northeast is the Lacus Autumni and to the northwest...
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    brought forward new theories about the formation of the lunar mare called Mare Orientale on Earth's Moon. Multi-ring basins are some of the largest, oldest...
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    Shuleykin is a small lunar impact crater that lies to the south of Mare Orientale, within the ring-shaped Montes Rook. It is located just on the far side...
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  • lake east of Israel, as used in the Bible (Joel 2:20; Ezek. 47:18) Mare Orientale, Latin for "Eastern Sea", on the Moon Atlantic Ocean, also referred...
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    Mond. In this work Julius named some lunar mares along the limb the Mare Orientale, Mare Autumni and Mare Veris. The later two were later renamed to the...
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    Montes Rook, a ring-shaped mountain formation that encircles the immense Mare Orientale feature. It lies to the northwest of Pettit. Andersson, L. E.; Whitaker...
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    briefly misidentified as a mare and named Mare Desiderii (Sea of Desire). It is no longer recognized. Other former? maria include: Mare Parvum ("Small Sea")...
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    depression in the southern part of the ejecta blanket that surrounds the Mare Orientale impact basin. To the south-southwest is the smaller crater Catalán....
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    is a lunar impact crater that lies within the central basin of the Mare Orientale formation, on the farside of the Moon. It is located to the south of...
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    Maksutov (crater) McKellar (crater) Mare Australe Mare Frigoris Mare Humboldtianum Mare Ingenii Mare Moscoviense Mare Orientale Mendeleev (crater) Michelson...
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    the craters Eratosthenes and Copernicus, as well as the vicinity of Mare Orientale, using this technique. According to the Apollo 17 Mission Report, Evans...
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    southwest limb. It lies due south of the Mare Orientale, in the outer skirt of ejecta that surrounds the Orientale impact feature. Just to the southeast...
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    "Lunar mare deposits associated with the Orientale impact basin: New insights into mineralogy, history, mode of emplacement, and relation to Orientale Basin...
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    northeastern edge of Montes Cordillera, a ring-shaped range that surrounds Mare Orientale. Due to its location, Riccioli appears strongly foreshortened from the...
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    surrounds the Mare Orientale impact basin. To the southeast are the Montes Cordillera, a ring of mountains that encircle the Mare Orientale formation. This...
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    on the far side of the Moon. It is located to the northwest of the Mare Orientale impact basin, and ejecta from that event has fallen across this crater...
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    edge of the Montes Cordillera mountain ring that surrounds the immense Mare Orientale formation. It is located near the southwest limb of the Moon on the...
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    near the northern edge of the blanket of ejecta that surrounds the Mare Orientale impact basin. To the north of Elvey is the smaller crater Nobel. This...
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    wide Vallis Inghirami, a wide, straight valley that is radial to the Mare Orientale impact basin. The valley has a length of about 140 kilometers and ends...
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    the Moon, crossing over to the far side. It completely encircles the Mare Orientale, and forms part of a massive impact basin feature. This range in turn...
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    the Montes Rook mountain range that forms one of the rings around the Mare Orientale impact site. The crater is situated in the midst of rugged, irregular...
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