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Left of the centerline is Procellarum proper.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Selenographic_coordinates" class="mw-redirect" title="Selenographic coordinates">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Oceanus_Procellarum&params=18.4_N_57.4_W_globe:moon_type:landmark"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">18°24′N</span> <span class="longitude">57°24′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">18.4°N 57.4°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">18.4; -57.4</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Diameter" title="Diameter">Diameter</a></th><td class="infobox-data">2,592 km (1,611 mi)<sup id="cite_ref-USGS_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USGS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Eponym" title="Eponym">Eponym</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Ocean of Storms</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Oceanus Procellarum</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span><span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ɛər/: 'are' in 'bare'">ɛər</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling">oh-<span style="font-size:90%">SEE</span>-ə-nəs <span style="font-size:90%">PROSS</span>-el-<span style="font-size:90%">AIR</span>-əm</i></a>; from <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Ōceanus procellārum</i>, <small><a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> </small>'Ocean of Storms') is a vast <a href="/wiki/Lunar_mare" title="Lunar mare">lunar mare</a> on the western edge of the <a href="/wiki/Near_side_of_the_Moon" title="Near side of the Moon">near side of the</a> <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>. It is the only one of the lunar maria to be called an "<a href="/wiki/Oceanus" title="Oceanus">Oceanus</a>" (ocean), due to its size: Oceanus Procellarum is the largest of the maria ("seas"), stretching more than 2,500 km (1,600 mi) across its north–south axis and covering roughly 4,000,000 km<sup>2</sup> (1,500,000 sq mi), accounting for 10.5% of the total lunar surface area.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characteristics">Characteristics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oceanus_Procellarum&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Like all lunar maria, Oceanus Procellarum was formed by ancient <a href="/wiki/Volcano" title="Volcano">volcanic</a> eruptions resulting in <a href="/wiki/Basalt" title="Basalt">basaltic</a> floods that covered the region in a thick, nearly flat layer of solidified <a href="/wiki/Magma" title="Magma">magma</a>. Basalts in Oceanus Procellarum have been estimated to be as young as one billion years old.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike the other lunar maria, however, Oceanus Procellarum may or may not be contained within a single, well-defined impact basin. </p><p>Around its edges lie many minor bays and seas, including <a href="/wiki/Sinus_Roris" title="Sinus Roris">Sinus Roris</a> to the north, and <a href="/wiki/Mare_Nubium" title="Mare Nubium">Mare Nubium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mare_Humorum" title="Mare Humorum">Mare Humorum</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sinus_Viscositatis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sinus Viscositatis (page does not exist)">Sinus Viscositatis</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinus_Viscositatis" class="extiw" title="it:Sinus Viscositatis">it</a>]</span><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to the south. To the northeast, Oceanus Procellarum is separated from <a href="/wiki/Mare_Imbrium" title="Mare Imbrium">Mare Imbrium</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Montes_Carpatus" title="Montes Carpatus">Carpathian Mountains</a>. On its north-west edge lies the 32 km wide <a href="/wiki/Aristarchus_(crater)" title="Aristarchus (crater)">Aristarchus ray crater</a>, the brightest feature on the Near side of the Moon.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, the more-prominent ray-crater <a href="/wiki/Copernicus_(lunar_crater)" title="Copernicus (lunar crater)">Copernicus</a> lies within the eastern edge of the mare, distinct with its bright ray materials sprawling over the darker material.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oceanus_Procellarum&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Origin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tnone center"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:591px;max-width:591px"><div class="trow"><div class="theader">Moon – Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms")</div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:291px;max-width:291px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:107px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:14-236-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Overall-20141001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/14-236-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Overall-20141001.jpg/289px-14-236-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Overall-20141001.jpg" decoding="async" width="289" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/14-236-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Overall-20141001.jpg/434px-14-236-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Overall-20141001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/14-236-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Overall-20141001.jpg/578px-14-236-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Overall-20141001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="614" data-file-height="228" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Ancient <a href="/wiki/Rift_valley" title="Rift valley">rift valleys</a> – rectangular structure (visible – topography – <a href="/wiki/Gravity_Recovery_and_Interior_Laboratory" class="mw-redirect" title="Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory">GRAIL gravity gradients</a>) (October 1, 2014).</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:109px;max-width:109px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:107px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PIA18822-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Overall-20141001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/PIA18822-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Overall-20141001.jpg/107px-PIA18822-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Overall-20141001.jpg" decoding="async" width="107" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/PIA18822-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Overall-20141001.jpg/161px-PIA18822-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Overall-20141001.jpg 1.5x, 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/PIA18821-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Closeup-20141001.jpg/275px-PIA18821-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Closeup-20141001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/PIA18821-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Closeup-20141001.jpg/366px-PIA18821-LunarGrailMission-OceanusProcellarum-Rifts-Closeup-20141001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1546" data-file-height="905" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Ancient <a href="/wiki/Rift_valley" title="Rift valley">rift valleys</a> – closeup (artist's concept).</div></div></div></div></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Procellarum_Rifts.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Procellarum_Rifts.tif/lossy-page1-220px-Procellarum_Rifts.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Procellarum_Rifts.tif/lossy-page1-330px-Procellarum_Rifts.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Procellarum_Rifts.tif/lossy-page1-440px-Procellarum_Rifts.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Gravity anomalies (red) bordering the Procellarum region overlaid on a global elevation map</figcaption></figure> <p>There are several hypotheses about the origin of Oceanus Procellarum and a related asymmetry between the near and far sides of the Moon. One of the most likely is that Procellarum was a result of an ancient giant impact on the near side of the Moon. The size of the impact basin has been estimated to be more than 3,000 kilometers, which would make it <a href="/wiki/List_of_largest_craters_in_the_Solar_System" title="List of largest craters in the Solar System">one of the three largest craters in the Solar System</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The impact likely happened very early in the Moon's history: at the time when <a href="/wiki/Lunar_magma_ocean" title="Lunar magma ocean">magma ocean</a> still existed or just ceased to exist. It deposited 5–30 km of crustal material on the far side forming highlands. If this is the case, all impact related structures such as crater <a href="/wiki/Impact_crater" title="Impact crater">rim</a>, central peak etc. have been obliterated by later impacts and <a href="/wiki/Volcanism" title="Volcanism">volcanism</a>. One piece of evidence in support of this hypothesis is concentration of incompatible elements (<a href="/wiki/KREEP" title="KREEP">KREEP</a>) and low calcium <a href="/wiki/Pyroxene" title="Pyroxene">pyroxene</a> around Oceanus Procellarum.<sup id="cite_ref-Nakamura2012_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nakamura2012-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Byrne2007_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Byrne2007-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Procellarum may have also been formed by spatially inhomogeneous heating during the Moon's formation.<sup id="cite_ref-Nakamura2012_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nakamura2012-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The GRAIL mission, which mapped the gravity gradients of the Moon, found square formations resembling rift valleys surrounding the region beneath the lava plains, suggesting the basin was formed by heating and cooling of the lunar surface by internal processes rather than by an impact, which would have left a round crater.<sup id="cite_ref-NASA2014_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA2014-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other hypotheses include a late accretion of a companion Moon on the far side. The latter postulates that in addition to the present Moon, another smaller (about 1,200 km in diameter) moon was formed from debris of the <a href="/wiki/Giant-impact_hypothesis" title="Giant-impact hypothesis">giant impact</a>. After a few tens of millions of years it collided with the Moon and due to a small collisional velocity simply piled up on one side of the Moon forming what is now known as far side <a href="/wiki/Lunar_highlands" class="mw-redirect" title="Lunar highlands">highlands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Jutzi2011_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jutzi2011-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Late_lunar_volcanism">Late lunar volcanism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oceanus_Procellarum&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Late lunar volcanism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Relatively recent (less than 2 bya) volcanic activity had been suspected in the Oceanus Procellarum due to the presence of relatively uneroded features. The 2020 Chang'e-5 sample return mission provided constraints on the age of Oceanus Procellarum, finding it to be 1963 ± 57 million years old – over a billion years younger than any other previously returned lunar sample. Late lunar volcanic activity was considered surprising as the Moon is much smaller than Earth; interior heat necessary for volcanism should have been lost three billion years ago, so volcanic rocks as late as those found in Oceanus Procellarum must require additional heat sources. </p><p>Previous studies suggested that Oceanus Procellarum should have high concentrations of the heat-producing elements such as potassium, thorium, and uranium<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, but samples returned showed that the concentration of suspected radioactive elements is much lower than necessary to provide prolonged heating.<sup id="cite_ref-change-5-no-radioactive-elements_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-change-5-no-radioactive-elements-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Exploration">Exploration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oceanus_Procellarum&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Exploration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> The <a href="/wiki/Robotic_spacecraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Robotic spacecraft">robotic</a> lunar <a href="/wiki/Space_probe" class="mw-redirect" title="Space probe">probes</a> <a href="/wiki/Luna_9" title="Luna 9">Luna 9</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luna_13" title="Luna 13">Luna 13</a>, <a href="/wiki/Surveyor_1" title="Surveyor 1">Surveyor 1</a> and <a href="/wiki/Surveyor_3" title="Surveyor 3">Surveyor 3</a> landed in Oceanus Procellarum. Luna 9 landed southwest of <a href="/wiki/Galilaei_(lunar_crater)" title="Galilaei (lunar crater)">Galilaei</a> crater in 1966. Luna 13 landed southeast of <a href="/wiki/Seleucus_(crater)" title="Seleucus (crater)">Seleucus</a> crater, later in 1966. Surveyor 1 landed north of <a href="/wiki/Flamsteed_(crater)" title="Flamsteed (crater)">Flamsteed</a> crater (within the larger Flamsteed P) in 1966, and Surveyor 3 landed in 1967. The <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">Chinese</a> probe <a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_5" title="Chang'e 5">Chang'e 5</a> landed at Statio Tianchuan on <a href="/wiki/Mons_R%C3%BCmker" title="Mons Rümker">Mons Rümker</a> in Oceanus Procellarum in December 2020 and collected 1.73 kg (3.8 lb) of lunar rock samples.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AJ23112020_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AJ23112020-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Apollo_12_landing_site_3154_h2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Apollo_12_landing_site_3154_h2.jpg/176px-Apollo_12_landing_site_3154_h2.jpg" decoding="async" width="176" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Apollo_12_landing_site_3154_h2.jpg/264px-Apollo_12_landing_site_3154_h2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Apollo_12_landing_site_3154_h2.jpg/352px-Apollo_12_landing_site_3154_h2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1800" /></a><figcaption>Image of <a href="/wiki/Apollo_12" title="Apollo 12">Apollo 12</a> landing site (center) used in mission planning (1.75 x 1.75 km)</figcaption></figure><p>During the Apollo program, flight operations planners were concerned about having the optimum lighting conditions at the landing site, hence the alternative target sites moved progressively westward, following the terminator. A delay of two days for weather or equipment reasons would have sent Apollo 11 to <a href="/wiki/Sinus_Medii" title="Sinus Medii">Sinus Medii</a> (designated ALS3) instead of ALS2—<a href="/wiki/Mare_Tranquillitatis" title="Mare Tranquillitatis">Mare Tranquillitatis</a>; another two-day delay would have resulted in ALS5, a site in Oceanus Procellarum, being targeted. </p><p>During the November 1969 <a href="/wiki/Apollo_12" title="Apollo 12">Apollo 12</a> mission, <a href="/wiki/Astronaut" title="Astronaut">astronauts</a> (Charles) <a href="/wiki/Pete_Conrad" title="Pete Conrad">Pete Conrad</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alan_Bean" title="Alan Bean">Alan Bean</a> landed the Lunar Module (LM) <i>Intrepid</i> nearly 165 meters from Surveyor 3 in Oceanus Procellarum.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their landing site has become known as Statio Cognitum (Latin, "to be known from experience").<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oceanus_Procellarum&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the 2004 album <a href="/wiki/Sirens_(Astarte_album)" title="Sirens (Astarte album)">Sirens</a> by greek metal band <a href="/wiki/Astarte_(band)" title="Astarte (band)">Astarte</a>, there is a song named after the lunar mare.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oceanus_Procellarum&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canceled_Apollo_missions#Follow-on_lunar_missions" title="Canceled Apollo missions">Apollo 18</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aristarchus_(crater)" title="Aristarchus (crater)">Aristarchus (crater)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_Lunar_Return_study" title="Human Lunar Return study">Human Lunar Return study</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mare_Cognitum" title="Mare Cognitum">Mare Cognitum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volcanism_on_the_Moon" title="Volcanism on the Moon">Volcanism on the Moon</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oceanus_Procellarum&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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