Mare Tranquillitatis (
Latin
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''tranquillitātis'', the Sea of Tranquillity or Sea of Tranquility; see
spelling differences
Despite the various English dialects spoken from country to country and within different regions of the same country, there are only slight regional variations in English orthography, the two most notable variations being British and American ...
) is a
lunar mare
The lunar maria (; singular: mare ) are large, dark, basaltic plains on Earth's Moon, formed by ancient asteroid impacts on the far side on the Moon that triggered volcanic activity on the opposite (near) side. They were dubbed , Latin for 'seas' ...
that sits within the Tranquillitatis basin on the
Moon
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. It is the first location on another world to be visited by humans.
The mare material within the basin consists of
basalt
Basalt (; ) is an aphanite, aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the planetary surface, surface of a terrestrial ...
formed in the intermediate to young age group of the
Upper Imbrian
The Imbrian is a lunar geologic period divided into two epochs, the Early and Late.
Early Imbrian
In the lunar geologic timescale, the Early Imbrian epoch occurred from 3,850 million years ago to about 3,800 million years ago. It overlaps the en ...
epoch. The surrounding mountains are thought to be of the
Lower Imbrian
The Imbrian is a lunar geologic period divided into two epochs, the Early and Late.
Early Imbrian
In the lunar geologic timescale, the Early Imbrian epoch occurred from 3,850 million years ago to about 3,800 million years ago. It overlaps the en ...
epoch, but the actual basin is probably
Pre-Nectarian
The pre-Nectarian period of the lunar geologic timescale runs from 4.533 billion years ago (the time of the initial formation of the Moon) to 3.920 billion years ago, when the Nectaris Basin was formed by a large impact. It is followed by the Necta ...
. The basin has irregular margins and lacks a defined multiple-ringed structure. The irregular topography in and near this basin results from the intersection of the Tranquillitatis,
Nectaris,
Crisium,
Fecunditatis, and
Serenitatis basins with two throughgoing rings of the
Procellarum basin.
Palus Somni
Palus Somni (Latin ''palūs somnī'' "Marsh of Sleep") is an area on the Moon of relatively level but somewhat uneven terrain that lies along the northeastern edge of Mare Tranquillitatis and the Sinus Concordiae. It has selenographic coordinate ...
, on the northeastern rim of the mare, is filled with the basalt that spilled over from Tranquillitatis.
This mare has a slight bluish tint relative to the rest of the Moon and stands out quite well when color is processed and extracted from
multiple photographs. The color is likely due to higher metal content in the basaltic soil or rocks.
Unlike many other maria, there is no
mass concentration (mascon), or gravitational high, in the center of Mare Tranquillitatis. Mascons were identified in the center of other maria (such as
Serenitatis or
Imbrium) from Doppler tracking of the five
Lunar Orbiter
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spacecraft in 1968. The gravity field was mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters such as
Lunar Prospector
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GRAIL
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, which unveiled an irregular pattern.
File:Tranquillitatis basin topo.jpg, Topographic map
File:Tranquillitatis basin GRAIL gravity.jpg, Gravity map based on GRAIL
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Naming
Mare Tranquillitatis was named in 1651 by astronomers
Francesco Grimaldi and
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
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in their
lunar map ''Almagestum novum''.
Michael van Langren, in his
Lumina Austriaca Philippica
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of
1645
Events
January–March
* January 3 – The Long Parliament adopts the ''Directory for Public Worship'' in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, replacing the Book of Common Prayer (1559). Holy Days (other than Sundays) are not ...
, used the name "Mare Belgicum".
Landings
On February 20, 1965, the
Ranger 8
Ranger 8 was a lunar probe in the Ranger program, a robotic spacecraft series launched by NASA in the early-to-mid-1960s to obtain the first close-up images of the Moon's surface. These pictures helped select landing sites for Apollo missions an ...
spacecraft
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was deliberately crashed into the Mare Tranquillitatis at after successfully transmitting 7,137 close-range photographs of the Moon in the final 23 minutes of its mission.
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]
Surveyor 5
Surveyor 5 was the fifth lunar lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon. Surveyor 5 landed on Mare Tranquillitatis in 1967. A total of 19,118 images were transmitted to Earth.
Mission
The mission ...
landed in Mare Tranquillitatis on September 11, 1967, after transmitting 19,118 images of the Moon, and was the fifth lunar lander of the unmanned
Surveyor program
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.
Apollo 11
Mare Tranquillitatis was the landing site for the first manned landing on the Moon on July 20, 1969, at 20:18
UTC. After
astronauts
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Neil Armstrong
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...
and
Buzz Aldrin
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made a soft landing in the
Apollo 11
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Lunar Module
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nicknamed
''Eagle'',
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s on Earth, "Houston,
Tranquility Base
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here. The Eagle has landed." The landing area at has been designated ''
Statio Tranquillitatis'' after Armstrong's name for it, and three small craters to the north of the base have been named
Aldrin
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,
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in honor of the Apollo 11 crew.
Apollo 11 landed at .
Bays
Along the periphery of the mare are several bay-shaped features that have been given names:
Sinus Amoris
Sinus Amoris (Latin ''sinus amōris'' "Bay of Love") extends northward from the northeast end of the Mare Tranquillitatis. It is located at selenographic coordinates 19.9° N, 37.3° E, and lies within a diameter of 190 km. To the north of ...
,
Sinus Asperitatis
Sinus Asperitatis (Latin ''sinus asperitātis'' "Bay of Roughness") is an area of lunar mare that extends southward from the Mare Tranquillitatis until it joins the Mare Nectaris to the southeast. It is bordered along the western and eastern sid ...
,
Sinus Concordiae
Sinus Concordiae (Latin ''sinus concordiae'' "Bay of Harmony") is a bay (''sinus'') on the Moon that lies along the eastern edge of the Mare Tranquillitatis. Along its northern border is an area called the Palus Somni, while the southern borde ...
, and
Sinus Honoris.
Views
These are three views of Mare Tranquillitatis on the Moon, taken by the mapping camera of the
Apollo 17
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mission in 1972, facing south-southwest from an average altitude of 111 km on Revolution 36 of the mission. At the left is the east side of Mare Tranquillitatis, with the craters
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(bottom right),
Lyell (dark floor, right of center), and
Taruntius (upper left). The "bay" of dark mare (basalt) at left is
Sinus Concordiae
Sinus Concordiae (Latin ''sinus concordiae'' "Bay of Harmony") is a bay (''sinus'') on the Moon that lies along the eastern edge of the Mare Tranquillitatis. Along its northern border is an area called the Palus Somni, while the southern borde ...
, with "islands" of older, light highland material. At the right is the crater
Cauchy
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, which lies between the
Rupes Cauchy and Cauchy rille. The center photo shows the central mare with craters
Vitruvius
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(lower right) and
Gardner (bottom center). At the horizon are lighter highlands at the southern margin of the mare, near the
Apollo 11
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landing site. The crater
Jansen is visible at the edges of both the center and right photos. The right photo shows the western mare, with the craters
Dawes
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(lower left) and the large
Plinius (43 km diameter), with the Plinius Rilles in the foreground. These photos were taken within minutes of each other as the
command module ''America'' orbited the Moon. The Sun elevation drops from 46 degrees at left to 30 degrees at right.
In popular culture
* In
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's Watchtower is in the Sea of Tranquility.
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i psych-progressive rock band
Jericho Jones
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recorded a song named "Mare Tranquilitatas" as the opening track of their UK album release (1971) ''Junkies, Monkeys & Donkeys''. The band is also known as
The Churchills.
*"Mare Tranquillitatis" is the name of a composition of music by composer
Vangelis
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on his 1976 album, ''
Albedo 0.39'' and is in reference to the
selenographical term.
*"Sea of Tranquility" is also a song by the progressive English rock band
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, included in their 1977 album ''
Gone to Earth''. The composition was written by the band keyboardist
Stuart "Woolly" Wolstenholme.
*American singer-songwriter
Tommy Shaw
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(best known for his work with the rock band
Styx) is associated with a number of references to the Sea of Tranquility. Tranquility Base Songs is his publishing company. He called his farm Tranquility Base Farms. A number of his songs mention Tranquility Base or simply "tranquility." Examples include: "
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", "And all roads lead to Tranquility Base" (from the 1979 album
''Cornerstone''), "
Everything Is Cool" – "We are a Sea of Tranquillity" (from the 1999 album
''Brave New World''), and "These Are the Times" – "We know the end will bring tranquility" (from the 2003 album
''Cyclorama'').
*''Sea of Tranquillity'' is the title of a 1994 novel by
Paul Russell.
*
Six Finger Satellite
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included a song named "Sea of Tranquility, Parts 1 & 2" from their 1998 album ''Law of Ruins''.
*The
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EP named ''Sea of Tranquility''.
*Dutch producer
Maarten van der Vleuten/
In-Existence released a song titled "Mare Tranquillitatis" on his album ''Vow Of Silence'' released on Tonefloat in 2005.
*
Howard Korder
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wrote a play called ''Sea of Tranquility''.
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mentions the Sea of Tranquillity in their hit song "Radio Pirata".
* "Sea of Tranquillity" is a song by space ambient artist, John Stanford.
* ''The Sea of Tranquility'' is the name of a book by
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''.
* ''The Sea of Tranquility'' is the name of a book by Katja Millay.
* ''Transmissions from The Sea of Tranquility'' is the name of the album by
The Samples
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* The
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Galactic Cowboys
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recorded a song named "Sea of Tranquility" as the sixth track on their 1991
self-titled debut album.
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released a song called "Remember the Sea of Tranquility on their split 7-inch with
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*In the 1987 film ''
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'', Ronald Miller (played by Patrick Dempsey) describes the Sea of Tranquility to Cindy Mancini (played by Amanda Peterson) while viewing it through a telescope on their final date.
*In the anime ''
Log Horizon 2'', Mare Tranquillitatis is the name of the sea inside the dimension where characters go when they die.
* "Mare Tranquillitatis" is the name of a 2016 song by
Adam Young.
* Sea of Tranquility appears in chapter 78 of ''
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* In Touhou 15, ''
Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom'', Mare Tranquillitatis is the setting of the final two stages of the game.
* In the
Alien franchise of movies, Weyland-Yutani (Often referred to as "The company") has a major corporate headquarters in the Sea of Tranquility. (Mentioned in the 1979 film ''
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'' as seen on the opening screen of the "Mother" computer, among other sources)
* "Sea of Tranquility" is a name of a song by
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on her album ''
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* In the book ''
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'', the city Artemis is located in the Sea of Tranquility, just north of the Moltke Foothills. The
Apollo 11
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Visitor Center and reactor/smelter complex is also located in the Sea of Tranquility, 40 and 1 km north and south of Artemis respectively.
* In John Adams' 1987 opera ''
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'', Act 1 Scene 1, Richard Nixon references "the Earth's Sea of Tranquility".
* In the
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'',
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of Serpentera is stated to be located in the Sea of Tranquility, which is where the last known remnants of the
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have based themselves, digging Serpentera up and planning to use it to destroy Earth in revenge for the death of their leader,
King Mondo.
* ''
Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino'' is a 2018 album and single by
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. The name is a reference to
Tranquility Base
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, located within the Sea of Tranquility.
* In Season 1 of ''
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'', China lays claim to the entire Sea of Tranquility.
* 2021 South Korean Netflix series ''
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'' is named after Mare Tranquilitatis.
* 'Sea of Tranquility', a song by Dutch singer-songwriter
Jojo León on his 2013 album
Minstrel of the Moon.
* In the ''
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'' films, the 7th branch of NERV (Tabgha Base) is located in the Sea of Tranquility.
* ''
Sea of Tranquility'' is the name of a 2022 book by
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* "Mare Tranquillitatis" is the name of a Frigate-type spaceship playable in ''
Infinite Lagrange'', a game developed and published by
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.
* In ''
Moonhaven'' (2022), the Sea of Tranquility is the site of a terrafromed colony, built to solve the problems of Earth.
Gallery
File:Mare Tranquillitatis map.jpg, Map of the Sea of Tranquility, showing the landing sites of Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module ''Eagle'' on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, an ...
, Apollo 16
Apollo 16 (April 1627, 1972) was the tenth crewed mission in the United States Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon. It was the second of Apollo's " J missions", with an extended sta ...
, Apollo 17
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on ...
, and Surveyor 5
Surveyor 5 was the fifth lunar lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon. Surveyor 5 landed on Mare Tranquillitatis in 1967. A total of 19,118 images were transmitted to Earth.
Mission
The mission ...
. To the southeast is Mare Fecunditatis
Mare Fecunditatis (Latin ''fēcunditātis'', the "Sea of Fecundity" or "Sea of Fertility") is a lunar mare in the eastern half of the visible Moon. The mare has a maximum diameter of 840 km.
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The Fecunditatis basin forme ...
, to the northeast is Mare Crisium
Mare Crisium (Latin ''crisium'', the "Sea of Crises") is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. The basin is of the Pre-Imbrian period, 4.55 to 3.85 billion years ago.
Characteristics
Mare Cri ...
, to the northwest is Mare Serenitatis
Mare Serenitatis (Latin ''serēnitātis'', the "Sea of Serenity") is a lunar mare located to the east of Mare Imbrium on the Moon. Its diameter is .
Geology
Mare Serenitatis is located within the Serenitatis basin, which is of the Nectarian ep ...
, and to the south is Mare Nectaris
Mare Nectaris (Latin ''nectaris'', the "Sea of Nectar") is a small lunar mare or sea (a volcanic lava plain noticeably darker than the rest of the Moon's surface) located south of Mare Tranquillitatis southwest of Mare Fecunditatis, on the near ...
.
File:AP11 FINAL APPROACH.ogv, Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
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lands the Apollo 11 Lunar Module ''Eagle'' on the Moon at Mare Tranquillitatis, July 20, 1969, creating Tranquility Base
Tranquility Base ( la, Statio Tranquillitatis) is the site on the Moon where, in July 1969, humans landed and walked on a celestial body other than Earth for the first time. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 crewmembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ...
. Starts approximately 6200 feet from the surface.
File:Buzz salutes the U.S. Flag.jpg, Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission. As the Lunar Module ''Eagle'' pilot on the 1969 A ...
salutes the U.S. flag
The national flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the ''American flag'' or the ''U.S. flag'', consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the ca ...
on Mare Tranquillitatis during Apollo 11 in 1969.
File:Mare Tranquillitatis pit crater.jpg, Spectacular high Sun view of the Mare Tranquillitatis pit crater
A pit crater (also called a subsidence crater or collapse crater) is a depression formed by a sinking or collapse of the surface lying above a void or empty chamber, rather than by the eruption of a volcano or lava vent. Pit craters are found ...
revealing boulders on an otherwise smooth floor. Image is 400 meters wide, north is up, NAC M126710873R.
See also
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Lists of astronomical objects
This is a list of lists, grouped by type of astronomical object.
Solar System
* List of Solar System objects
* List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System
* List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun
* List of So ...
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Volcanism on the Moon
Volcanism on the Moon is represented by the presence of volcanoes, pyroclastic deposits and vast lava plains on the lunar surface. The volcanoes are typically in the form of small domes and cones that form large volcanic complexes and isolated edi ...
References
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