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Select a oceanus by clicking on the name. Move the mouse over the full scale image of the larger region to show names of prominent surface features and additional data: depth from rim to crater floor and diameter, taken from the Times Atlas of the Moon (Ed. H.A.G. Lewis, Times Newspapers Ltd., 1969; charts available online at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/) and from Virtual Moon Atlas (Christian Legrand & Patrick Chevalley).


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A oceanus (ENG: ocean) is an extremely large lunar mare. Only one mare deserves this name because of its huge dimension (2500 km across). However, due to its rather irregular form, it probably didn’t originate from one single impact basin.