Key Terms
- highlands
- the lighter, heavily cratered regions of the Moon, which are generally several kilometers higher than the maria
- mare
- (plural: maria) Latin for “sea;” the name applied to the dark, relatively smooth features that cover 17% of the Moon’s surface
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