Ocean of Storms
Meaning
Proper Noun
- basin hemisphere, Nearside celestial body, Moon parent body, Earth star system, Solar System
Related
Similar words
- Sea of Storms
- Mare Procellarum
- Oceanus Procellarum
Origin
- , from oceanus + procella. Coined by Italian Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, by labelling a map created by Italian Jesuit optician Francesco Maria Grimaldi, and then published in 1651 in the Almagestum Novum.
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