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(Freely adapted from Wikipedia)

 

Mare Crisium (the "Sea of Crises") is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis.

 

Mare Crisium is 555 km in diameter, and 176,000 square kilometres in area.

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