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Describe what maria on the surface of the moon look like and how they came to be known as maria.
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Describe what maria on the surface of the moon look like and how they came to be known as maria.

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Maria are large, dark, basaltic plains on the moon. Galileo named these places 'maria' after the Latin word for sea because he thought they looked like oceans.
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