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Mare Ingenii

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The mare has swirling patterns of bright material, similar to Reiner Gamma and to patterns within Mare Marginis, which are not associated with topographic or volcanic features. The lunar swirls are believed to be associated with magnetic fields.

Prior to formal naming in 1961 by the IAU, the crater was known as Basin XIV.

Mare Ingenii is located at the antipode of the Mare Imbrium impact basin. The furrowed crater walls of the basin (and possibly those of Van de Graaff crater) may have been caused by focused seismic waves resulting from the Imbrium impact.

The mare contains the second instance of a lunar pit discovered on the Moon and one of several outside the Earth to date.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) articles

  • The Swirls of Mare Ingenii,
  • Depths of Mare Ingenii

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