Listen "6/17/24 - The Sea of Rains"
Episode Synopsis
Even to the unaided eye, the moon reveals round dark regions called "maria." Before the age of telescopes, people imagined these dark stretches as oceans of water. In reality, they are vast lava plains left behind by asteroid impacts.
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