const MARE_CYCLES: 1.5
Cycles per unit of direction space for the mare gate.
Low, because what it has to produce is a hemispheric asymmetry. The Moon's maria cover a third of the near side and 2% of the far side, and the explanation is crustal thickness varying on the scale of the body itself — one and a half cycles across the sphere is that scale.
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