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A view of the Apollo 11 landing site at center, facing west, with the 22km wide Maskelyne crater in right foreground. On February 20, 1965, the Ranger 8 spacecraft 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
The Salton Sea is a shallow saline lake located in California's Imperial and Coachella valleys.
The seabed (also known as the seafloor, sea floor, ocean floor, and ocean bottom) is the bottom of the ocean.All floors of the ocean are known as 'seabeds'. The structure of the seabed of the global ocean is governed by plate tectonics.
The Molucca Sea (Indonesian: Laut Maluku) is located in the western Pacific Ocean, around the vicinity of Indonesia, specifically bordered by the Indonesian Islands of Celebes (Sulawesi) to the west, Halmahera to the east, and the Sula Islands to the south.
The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) [4] is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and the west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated from the Bay of Bengal to its west by the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands.
The Lombok Strait is abundant of flora and fauna species which have been well explored through Bali’s diving tourism. [6] As the Lombok Strait connects the Bali Sea to the Indian Ocean, the abundance of flora and fauna is due to its location between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, where the strait acts as a passage for currents.
Lautan Pasir, a volcanic dune in Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, Indonesia. Mui Ne, Vietnam. Wahiba Sands, Oman; Teri, red dune complex in southern India; The dunes of the Taklamakan Desert in southwest Xinjiang in Northwest China; Tukulans of the Central Yakutian Lowland, Russia; Fronting the Mediterranean Sea in Oliva, Valencian Community ...
Flores Sea. The seas that border the Flores Sea are the Bali Sea (to the west), the Java Sea (to the northwest), and the Banda Sea (to the east and northeast).. The Indian Ocean and the Savu Sea lie to the south but are separated from the Flores Sea by various islands.