Which lunar mare contained the Apollo 12 landing site?

Which lunar mare contained the Apollo 12 landing site? Oceanus Procellarum contained the landing site. Apollo 12 touched down there on November 19, 1969, making it the second crewed lunar landing.

The landing area was near the Surveyor 3 probe, which had arrived in 1967. Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean guided Intrepid to within about 535 feet (163 meters) of the robotic spacecraft. That precision landing showed NASA could target scientifically important locations rather than simply aim for a broad, safe plain.

Oceanus Procellarum is commonly translated as the “Ocean of Storms.” Despite the name, it is not an ocean of liquid water; it is a vast dark basaltic plain formed largely by ancient volcanic activity. The Apollo 12 site is sometimes confused with Mare Tranquillitatis, where Apollo 11 landed, or Mare Imbrium, near several later Apollo targets.