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Tuesday, 26 May 2026
13 facts about Deimos
13 facts about Deimos
A smaller moon of Mars
Deimos is a smaller and more distant Martian moon. Its diameter is only 12.4 km, although it is difficult to talk about the diameter in the case of su ...

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Tears
The frequency of crying depends on human nature.
There is no equation to calculate how often people cry. It depends on various factors, such as emoti ...
Silver
Later, pure silver coins were produced.
The British pound was initially worth 1 pound of 925 silver jewelry.
Moon
The crushed and fragmented rock material that covers the Moon's surface is called regolith.
The thickness of the regolith cover in sea areas ranges from 3 - 5 m and in the highlands 10 - 20 m.
Milky Way
The center of our galaxy can be found in the constellation Sagittarius.
Unfortunately, it cannot be observed directly in the visible spectrum because it is obscured by clou ...
lava
During a volcanic eruption, several hundred cubic meters of lava are usually ejected.
These volumes can vary, sometimes being very large, such as during the eruption of the Laki rift vol ...
Amber
Amber possesses electrostatic properties.
It can produce static electricity when negatively charged by applying friction. Because of that, ancient Greeks named amber “elektron,” which became the basis for the word electricity.
Earth
The Earth has the only natural satellite - the Moon.
The moon is relatively large for a natural satellite. Its diameter is approximately ¼ the diameter of the Earth. It orbits the Earth at an average distance of 384.400 km.
Snow
The 1972 snow blizzard in Iran killed 4000 people.
It was the deadliest blizzard in history. At the time, 7.9 meters of snow fell, completely covering ...
Snow
Snow is formed from the finest droplets of over-cooled water in clouds.
These droplets attach themselves to nuclei of crystallization, which can be, for example, dust parti ...
lava
Magma is formed in deep parts of the Earth's crust.
It is formed in the Earth's upper mantle, a layer of the crust that extends to a depth of about 400 ...