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Aristillus
IMBRIUM
Posidonius
Archimedes
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Plinius CRISIUM
OCEANUS Manilius
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Kepler Copernicus MARE

Reiner
Agrippa TRANQUILLITATIS
Reinhold
PROCELLARUM Lansberg MARE
Delambre
FECUNDITATIS
Grimaldi Hipparchus
Ptolemaeus
Theophilus Langrenus
Albategnius
Cyrillus
MARE Alphonsus MARE
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accentuate the topography. NASA GODDARD / ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY