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Oceanus Procellarum

Definitions

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  • proper noun planetology The largest mare region on the Moon.

Etymologies

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Latin for “Ocean of Storms”.

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Examples

  • Luna 9 was launched in 1962 and 72 hours after its launch became the first craft to successfully touch down on the Moon and broadcast television from Oceanus Procellarum .

    Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: January 29-31, 2010 | Universe Today 2010

  • The space walk sequence the film uses footage from a variety of Apollo missions, often the only indicator of which mission the specific footage is from is based on the names used is incredible and makes me want to do that even more than the lunar footage makes me want to do the kangaroo hop across Oceanus Procellarum.

    - 2009

  • Mars, Mercury, and Earth's Moon have undergone repeated strikes by objects ranging in size from micrometeorites to whatever cracked the Moon and created the large lava basin called Oceanus Procellarum.

    Lucifer's Hammer Niven, Larry 1977

  • The sun had dropped behind the Grimaldi plateau, although for a day twilight would linger over the Oceanus Procellarum.

    Out Around Rigel Robert H. Wilson

  • We had looked with awe upon Mare Crisium and Lacus Somniorum, Sinius Roris, Oceanus Procellarum and the four great mountain ranges.

    The Moon Maid 1923

  • One of the most remarkable of these is found in the _Oceanus Procellarum_, near the crater-mountain Aristarchus, which is famed for the intense brilliance of its central peak, whose reflective power is so great that it was once supposed to be aflame with volcanic fire.

    Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries 1890

  • Towards the north, on the contrary, as far as where the peninsula jutted on _Oceanus Procellarum_, the plain looked like a sea of lava wildly lashed for a while by a furious hurricane and then, when its waves and breakers and driving ridges were at their wildest, suddenly frozen into solidity.

    All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866

  • It looms up, single and isolated, like a gigantic light-house, on the peninsula separating _Mare Nubium_ from _Oceanus Procellarum_ on one side and from _Mare Imbrium_ on the other; thus illuminating with its splendid radiation three "Seas" at a time.

    All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866

  • South of _Oceanus Procellarum_ and separated from _Mare Nubium_ by a goodly number of ring mountains, lies the little basin of _Mare Humorum_, the Sea of Humors, containing only about 66 thousand square miles, its central point having a latitude of 25° south and a longitude of 40° east.

    All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866

  • _Oceanus Procellarum_, the Ocean of Tempests, where, engaged in one continuous struggle with the gusty whirlwinds, excited by our own passions or those of others, so few of us escape shipwreck.

    All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866

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