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Thursday, 14 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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Titan
Its surface is highly geologically diverse.
It is covered in lighter and darker areas: seas, lakes, bays, islands, rivers, canals, mountain ridges, valleys, fjords, and dunes.
Phobos
There is a ridge on the surface of the moon, called the Kepler Dorsum.
It was named after the German astronomer, Johannes Kepler.
NASA
President John F. Kennedy set NASA a goal—to send men to the Moon, and bring them back home safely.
NASA responded to Kennedy’s famous speech, known as “We Choose the Moon,” with the Apollo program (1960-1972).
Amber
It has been used as a gemstone since antiquity.
Once polished, it glistens and resembles a gemstone.
Graphene
Graphene can be used in the biomedical field for diagnostic purposes.
It shows therapeutic potential as a drug carrier. It can also be used in tissue engineering because ...
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 ...
Amber
Amber has been used as a medicine.
In ancient Rome, amber dust was mixed with honey to cure a sore throat, while mixed with water was u ...
Tears
Babies can cry for up to three hours a day.
It is their way of communicating their needs, such as hunger, tiredness, or discomfort.
Milky Way
Although not every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, there is one in the center of the Milky Way.
This region, called Sagittarius A*, is a very bright and compact radio source with a mass of 3.7 million solar masses and a diameter of approximately 44 million kilometers.
Earth
According to analyses, the Earth will be able to support life for another 0.5 to 2.3 billion years.
As hydrogen deposits in the solar core decrease, the star's brightness is expected to increase. In j ...