All articles starting with M

Mare Dibaba

Mare Dibaba (ዲባባ•ማሬ, Mare Dibaba Hurssa), Ethiopian marathon runner born 1989; 2015 world champion in Beijing and 2016 Olympic marathon bronze medallist; not related to Tirunesh Dibaba; briefly competed for Azerbaijan as Mare Ibrahimova.

Mare Fecunditatis

Mare Fecunditatis, the Sea of Fecundity, is a lunar mare on the Moon's eastern nearside, where the Soviet Luna 16 probe returned lunar soil in 1970.

Oct 20, 2026

Mare Frigoris

Mare Frigoris, the Sea of Cold, is an elongated lunar mare in the Moon's far north, 1,446 km across, with 2.61–3.77-billion-year-old high-aluminum basalts and recently active wrinkle ridges.

Mare Humboldtianum

Mare Humboldtianum, Humboldt's Sea, a lunar mare on the Moon's northeastern limb inside the 650 km Humboldtianum Basin; one of only two maria named after a person, with two basalt units of differing titanium content.

Mare Humorum

Mare Humorum (Latin for "Sea of Moisture") is a small lunar mare on the southwestern nearside of the Moon, at the southern end of Oceanus Procellarum.

Mare Imbrium

Mare Imbrium, Latin for "Sea of Showers," is a large basalt plain filling the Imbrium impact basin on the Moon's near side; Apollo 15 landed there in 1971.

Mare Insularum

Mare Insularum, Latin for "Sea of Islands," is a lunar mare south of Mare Imbrium where Apollo 12 landed in 1969; the IAU named it in 1976.

Oct 22, 2026

Mare Liberum

Mare Liberum (The Free Sea) is a 1609 Latin treatise by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius arguing the sea belongs to no nation and trade on it is free.

Mare Marginis

Mare Marginis, "Sea of the Edge", a 357.63 km lunar mare on the Moon's eastern limb at 12.7°N, 86.5°E; IAU-named 1935, basalts 3.75–2.5 Ga, known for swirls opposite Mare Orientale.

Mare Moscoviense

Mare Moscoviense, Sea of Muscovy, is the main basalt-filled mare on the Moon's far side, inside the ~445 km Moscoviense basin at 27°N, 148°E, first imaged by Luna 3 in 1959, with thin crust, high-alumina basalts, and 9,500–16,000 km³ of lava.

Mare Nectaris

Mare Nectaris, Latin for "Sea of Nectar," is a 339-km-wide lunar mare on the Moon's near side, filling the Nectaris impact basin about 3.9 billion years old.

Mare Nostrum

Mare Nostrum, Latin for 'our sea', was the Roman name for the Mediterranean Sea, revived by Fascist Italy as imperial rhetoric and reused for Italy's 2013-2014 migrant search-and-rescue naval operation.

Mare Nubium

Mare Nubium, Latin for "Sea of Clouds", is a basaltic lava plain on the Moon's nearside south of the equator, filling the ancient Nubium impact basin.

Mare of Easttown

Mare of Easttown is a 2021 HBO seven-episode limited crime drama created by Brad Ingelsby, directed by Craig Zobel, starring Kate Winslet as Delaware County detective Mare Sheehan investigating Erin McMenamin's murder; Emmy-winning, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Mare Orientale

Mare Orientale, or Oriental Sea, is a small lunar mare on the Moon's western limb, at the center of the 930 km Orientale impact basin formed about 3.8 billion years ago.

Mare polare

Mare polare is a 2004 children's board game by Roberto Fraga, illustrated by Barbara Kinzebach, published by Selecta. Inuit players memorize a fish-soup recipe and catch fish by touch from a bag, checking it via a mirror on the oracle mountain; nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres 2004.

Mare Serenitatis

Mare Serenitatis, Latin for Sea of Serenity, is a basalt-flooded impact basin on the lunar near side about 310,000 km² in area, where Apollo 17 landed in December 1972.

Mare Smythii

Mare Smythii, also called the Smythii Basin mare, is a partially filled basalt plain on the Moon's eastern limb at the nearside-farside boundary, in a pre-Nectarian basin with basalts erupted mainly 4.11-3.07 billion years ago.

Mare Spumans

Mare Spumans, the Foaming Sea, is a small 143 km lunar mare at 1.3N 65.3E near Mare Crisium, IAU-named in 1935, part of the Crisium-concentric belt of irregular maria.

Mare Tranquillitatis

Mare Tranquillitatis, also known as the Sea of Tranquility, is a basaltic lava plain on the Moon's near side, best known as the Apollo 11 landing site.

Oct 20, 2026

Mare Undarum

Mare Undarum (Sea of Waves) is a 244.84-km lunar mare at 7.49N 68.66E near the eastern limb, north of Mare Spumans, outside the Crisium basin rim, with Upper Imbrian basalt and lunar domes.

Mare Vaporum

Mare Vaporum (Sea of Vapors) is a 242-km lunar mare of Imbrian basalt on the Moon's central near side, IAU-named in 1935, near Sinus Medii, Manilius crater, and Rima Hyginus.

Mare Winningham

Mare Winningham (Mary Megan Winningham) is an American actress and singer-songwriter who won Emmys for Amber Waves and George Wallace and was nominated for an Oscar for Georgia.

Mare's Leg

The Mare's Leg is a cut-down Winchester Model 1892 lever-action firearm created as a prop for Steve McQueen in the western series Wanted: Dead or Alive.

MAREA

MAREA is a transatlantic submarine fiber-optic cable connecting Virginia Beach, Virginia, with Bilbao, Spain. Built by Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius, it entered service in 2018.

Mareca

Mareca (Stephens, 1824) is a genus of dabbling ducks in Anatidae holding the wigeons, gadwall, falcated duck, and extinct Amsterdam Duck; merged into Anas in 1945, resurrected in the 2010s, and recently proposed as an Anas subgenus.

Marechal Mascarenhas De Moraes hydroelectric plant

The Marechal Mascarenhas de Moraes hydroelectric plant (Peixoto plant) is a Brazilian hydroelectric station on the rio Grande in Minas Gerais that was the first large-scale power plant built there.

Maree Fish

Maree Beverley Fish, born 1963, Tasmanian field hockey goalkeeper; reserve keeper for Australia's gold-medal Hockeyroos at Seoul 1988, first Australian Olympic hockey gold; 43 tests, OAM.

Sep 19, 2026

Maree Isaacs

Maree Isaacs is an Australian technology executive who co-founded the Sydney-based logistics software company WiseTech Global with Richard White in 1994 and remains an Executive Director.