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Mare Tranquillitatis corresponds to the deposit of successive Early to Late Imbrian basaltic units filling the Tranquillitatis basin on the Moon. The present study focuses on the western half of the mare, in the vicinity of the Arago crater (6.16°N, 21.42°E). High resolution datasets from recent remote sensing missions were used to reconstruct the geologic history of the area, which includes a variety of geological features such as: 8 extrusive domes, numerous wrinkle ridges, a sinuous rille and 37 Irregular Mare Patches (IMPs). We performed crater counting to date the domes emplacement and estimated the domes lava rheologic properties (plastic viscosities, lava effusion rates, and durations of effusion) using their geometric characteristics. As a result we classify the