Editing Mare Anguis

{{Infobox Lunar mare
|name        = Mare Anguis
|image       = [[Image:Mare Anguis.jpg|200px]]
|caption     = Mare Anguis is the dark patch in the middle of this photo. The crater in the left center of the photo is [[Eimmart (crater)|Eimmart]], and is at the northwestern tip of Mare Anguis. The dark patch in the lower left corner is the northeastern edge of [[Mare Crisium]].
|eponym      = Serpent Sea
|coordinates = {{coord|22.6|N|67.7|E|globe:moon_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
|diameter    = {{convert|146|km|mi|abbr=on}}<ref name=USGS/>
}}

'''Mare Anguis''' {{IPAc-en|'|æ|ŋ|g|w|ᵻ|s}} (Latin ''anguis'', the "'''serpent sea'''") is a [[lunar mare]] located on the near side of the [[Moon]], about 150 kilometers in diameter.<ref name=USGS>{{gpn|3664}}</ref> Located within the [[Crisium basin]], Mare Anguis is a part of the [[Nectarian System]], meaning that it was formed during the [[Nectarian]] time period. Like most mare, the surface of Mare Anguis is dark, indicating that it has been filled with volcanic [[basalt]]. It forms part of a concentric ring to the northeast of the Crisium rim, and it lies at an elevation 800&nbsp;m above [[Mare Crisium]]. Channels lead down from Mare Anguis to Mare Chrisium, with some possible indications of lava flow.<ref name=Head1978/>

The small, 7–km diameter crater Eimmart A lies at the east edge of Mare Anguis. It is a proposed source for the Antarctic meteorite ALHA81005.<ref name=Blewett1994/> The impact appears to have excavated mare basalt, which probably accounts for the [[olivine]]/low-Ca [[pyroxene]] mixture found in the [[spectrum]].<ref name=Blewett1995/>

[[File:Mare Anguis AS17-M-0914.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Oblique view of Mare Anguis from [[Apollo 17]]]]

==See also==
*[[Volcanism on the Moon]]

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=

<ref name=Head1978>{{citation | postscript=.
 | title=Regional stratigraphy and geologic history of Mare Crisium.
 | work=Mare Crisium: The view from Luna 24; Proceedings of the Conference, Houston, Tex., December 1-3, 1977
 | display-authors=1 | last1=Head | first1=J. W.
 | last2=Adams | first2=J. B. | last3=McCord | first3=T. B.
 | last4=Pieters | first4=C. | last5=Zisk | first5=S.
 | publication-place=New York | publisher=Pergamon Press, Inc.
 | year=1978 | pages=43–74 | bibcode=1978mcvl.conf...43H }}</ref>

<ref name=Blewett1994>{{citation
 | title=A Spectral Survey of the Crisium Region of the Moon
 | last1=Blewett | first1=D. T. | last2=Hawke | first2=B. R.
 | last3=Lucey | first3=P. G. | last4=Spudis | first4=P. D.
 | work=Abstracts of the 25th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held in Houston, TX, 14-18 March 1994.
 | page=127 | date=March 1994 | bibcode=1994LPI....25..127B
 | display-authors=1 | postscript=. }}</ref>

<ref name=Blewett1995>{{citation
 | title=A spectral survey of the Crisium Basin Region of the Moon
 | last1=Blewett | first1=D. T. | last2=Hawke | first2=B. R.
 | last3=Lucey | first3=P. G. | last4=Spudis | first4=P. D.
 | journal=Geophysical Research Letters | display-authors=1
 | volume=22 | issue=22 | pages=3059–3062 | date=1995
 | doi=10.1029/95GL03079 | bibcode=1995GeoRL..22.3059B | hdl=2060/19970019900 | s2cid=140661358 | hdl-access=free }}</ref>

}}

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[[Category:Maria on the Moon|Anguis]]
[[Category:Nectarian|Anguis]]