Mare Nectaris

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The Sea of Nectar (Mare Nectaris) is a small lunar mare or sea (a volcanic lava plain noticeably darker than the rest of the moon's surface) located between the Sea of Tranquillity (Mare Tranquillatis) and the Sea of Fecundity (Mare Fecunditatis). Montes Pyrenaeus borders the mare to the west and the large crater near the south center of the mare is known as Rosse.

[edit] Geology

The mare material is approximately 1000m in depth, and mainly of the Nectarian and Lower Imbrian epochs, with the mare material of the Upper Imbrian epoch. The crater Theophilus on the northeastern side of the mare is of the Eratosthenian epoch. Thus, the crater is younger than the mare to its southeast.

Enough subsistence has occurred to open a few arcuate grabens on the western margin of the mare.

[edit] Pop Culture references

In the 1966 Tevevision series The Time Tunnel, the main characters time travel to the then future year of 1978. The materialize in a space craft that makes a landing on the Mare Nectaris. The happens in the episode entitled "One Way to The Moon".