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by Michael Rundle
The Huffington Post
Usually when someone on the internet writes about 'geometric forms' found on the Moon, it's a crazy UFO hunter who doesn't understand pixelation of composite images taken at high altitudes.
This is different.
Scientists report that rifts across large areas of the Moon's surface actually forms an enormous rectangle.
The area in question is the Ocean of Storms, an enormous and obvious feature of the Moon which was once thought to literally contain an ocean.
In the modern era of astronomy it has been understood – of course – that the 'Ocean' is actually just another area of basalt rock (the technical term is 'maria', which is just Latin for 'sea').
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