Figure 36.4 Mare Imbrium and surrounding highlands.

Mare Imbrium is the largest of the dark plains that dominate the side of the Moon facing Earth. Several high mountains and lighter colored highlands strewn with craters ring Mare Imbrium. (Carnegie Observatories)

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