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Monday, 25 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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Mushrooms
The mushroom called Entoloma hochstetteri is a mushroom with a blue fruiting body color.
Its image is featured on the back of a New Zealand 50-dollar note from 2002.
Fungi
Mushrooms are some of the oldest inhabitants of Earth.
Recent evidence suggests that the first fungi evolved on Earth between 715 and 810 million years ago.
Ganymede
Ganymede has a larger diameter than Mercury and is 5268 km.
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 ...
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.
Aurora
The particles that make up the solar wind, upon contact with the Earth's magnetic field, spiral along the lines of this field and collide near the magnetic poles with molecules of nitrogen and oxygen, etc.
They arouse them, and these, returning to the ground state, radiate energy in the form of light quanta.
Snow
Snowflakes falling on the water produce a penetrating sound.
This is the view of some researchers, claiming that a snowflake falling on water produces a high-fre ...
Ganymede
The Moon is the only one in the Solar System that has a dipole magnetic field capable of creating a magnetosphere.
Amber
Amber was used for incense.
It was used both during religious ceremonies and in hospitals because it was believed to accelerate recovery and help to concentrate.
Silver
Silver is a metal slightly harder than gold.
It is a very ductile and malleable metal with a shiny luster and can be easily polished.