other words for gentle

• amiable.
• compassionate.
• considerate.
• genial.
• mellow.
• pleasant.
• quiet.
• tame.

slowly

• calmly.
• casually.
• deliberately.
• gently.
• gradually.
• haltingly.
• languidly.
• lazily.

What is the opposite of gentle?

Oceanus Procellarum

The Sea of Tranquility is a dark spot located in the northern hemisphere of the Moon. The sea is not a body of water but a lower-altitude plain. As a result of earlier periods of lunar volcanism, it is filled with dark, solidified lava.

The Sea of Tranquility is the landing site of Apollo 11, the mission that gave mankind its first ever walk on the Moon. In fact, there isn’t a single sea on the lunar surface. The Sea of Tranquility is actually a lunar mare.

Apollo 11’s Tranquillity Base is, as its name suggests, in the Sea of Tranquillity, Mare Tranquillitatis. The dark lava of this 700km diameter sea is easily visible to the naked eye, but a telescope is required to explore the vicinity of the landing site.

Sea of Tranquillity on the Moon From 11 Km, 5 Seconds Before Impact.

The traditional nomenclature for the Moon also includes one oceanus (ocean), as well as features with the names lacus (lake), palus (marsh), and sinus (bay). The last three are smaller than maria, but have the same nature and characteristics.

Those spots are called maria, from the Latin word for sea, because early astronomers mistakenly thought they were lunar seas (they’re actually volcanic plains). The smooth and dark maria cover 17 percent of the surface of the moon. Almost all of them are visible from Earth.

Potential for Life? The Moon’s weak atmosphere and its lack of liquid water cannot support life as we know it.

NASA recently announced that – for the first time – we’ve confirmed the water molecule, H2O, in sunlit areas of the Moon. This indicates that water is widely distributed across the lunar surface.