Mare Tranquillitatis: Verskil tussen weergawes

|diameter={{convert|873|km|mi|abbr=on}}<ref name=USGS>{{cite web |title=Moon Mare/Maria |publisher=USGS Astrogeology |work=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature |url=http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/SearchResults?target=MOON&featureType=Mare%2C%20maria |access-date=20 Augustus 2010 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724231444/https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/SearchResults?target=MOON |archive-date=24 Julie 2019 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/science/atlas/mare/mtranquillitatis.htm | title = Mare Tranquillitatis | publisher = Nasa }}</ref>

Mare Tranquillitatis is in 1651 deur astronome [[Francesco Maria Grimaldi|Francesco Grimaldi]] en [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] benoem in hulle [[Selenography|maanatlas]], die ''[[Almagestum novum]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Face of the Moon |year=1989 |publisher=Linda Hall Library |location=Kansas City, MO |page=7 |url=http://www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/moon/index.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mare Tranquillitatis naming origin |url=https://twitter.com/#!/MyMoonLPI/status/164879359793037312 |publisher=Lunar Planetary Institute |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521204544/https://twitter.com// |archive-date=21 Mei 2020 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Langs die soom van die mare is verskeie baaivormige kenmerke waaraan name toegeken is, naamlik [[Sinus Amoris]], [[Sinus Asperitatis]], [[Sinus Concordiae]] en [[Sinus Honoris]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Wood |first=Chuck |date=10 Augustus 2006 |url=http://www.lpod.org/?m=20060810 |title=Is it Love or a Sinus Infection? |publisher=Lunar Photo of the Day |access-date=10 Augustus 2006 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914144420/http://www.lpod.org/?m=20060810 |archive-date=14 September 2019 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref>