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Tuesday, 20 January 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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Amber
Heated amber emits a pine-tree fragrance.
Tears
An excessive amount of tears often called pathological crying or laughing, may be an indication of a brain disease or Alzheimer’s disease.
Cosmos
The development of the universe can be divided into five stages.
The very early universe lasted only a picosecond, during which time the laws of physics that we know today had not yet developed.
Aurora
Auroras are caused by magnetic storms in the Sun.
Huge amounts of high-energy charged particles (mainly protons and electrons) are then ejected from t ...
NASA
Apollo 13 launched on April 11th, 1970, and was forced to cancel the landing on the lunar surface (precisely on the Fra Mauro site), because of the explosion of an oxygen tank.
Fortunately, the lunar module served as a lifeboat and returned the crew safely back to Earth.
Graphene
Although graphene consists of an element that is abundant on Earth, its production costs are high.
This is a major obstacle to graphene finding mass application in many fields. For now, only small amounts are produced.
Earth
The Earth orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit in 365.235 days.
The average distance from the Sun is 150 million km and ranges from 147.09 million km at the periapsis to 152.09 million km at the apsis.
Deimos
The dimensions of Deimos are 15 x 12 x 10.4 km.
Due to its small size, it is not a spherical object.
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.
Fungi
The largest group of fungi are multicellular organisms, but there are also single-cell fungi, such as yeast.
A characteristic feature of fungi is their cell wall made of chitin. A fungal cell may be mononuclea ...