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The Moon's Mare Orientale is one of the largest impact basins in the solar system. The outermost ring of this vast, multi-ringed crater is the Cordillera Mountain range, some 900 km in diameter.
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[Fig.1: Mare Orientale on the Moon (NASA Lunar Orbiter).]
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