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Thursday, 29 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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NASA
The most memorable mission of Project Mercury was Freedom 7.
The liftoff took place on May 5th, 1961. It allowed Alan Shepard Jr. to go down in history as the fi ...
NASA
In 1998, NASA, in collaboration with Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), CSA (Canada), and JAXA (Japan), launched the first component of the International Space Station (ISS).
The ISS program evolved from the 1980s Space Station Freedom program. The first long-term residents ...
Large Magellanic Cloud
It contains approximately 60 globular clusters, 700 open clusters, and 400 planetary nebulae.
Milky Way
A galactic year is the period during which the Sun orbits the center of the galaxy.
It lasts about 230 - 240 million years. The solar system moves around the center of the Milky Way at an average speed of 230 km/s (828,000 km/h).
Liver
Liver produces bile.
It allows to digest fats and proteins. It is also essential to regulating blood glucose.
NASA
The Super Soaker squirt gun, a popular toy, was invented by a NASA scientist.
Mushrooms
Growing in North America, Europe and Asia, a fungus called Hydnellum peckii, secretes a red blood substance on a white hat.
The fungus is inedible, but unfailingly decorative.
Deimos
Unlike Phobos, Deimos rises in the east and sets in the west of the Martian sky.
Silver
Silver compounds are toxic to bacteria, viruses, fungi and algae.
Compounds of other heavy metals, such as copper, lead, or mercury, also have such properties, but si ...
Silver
Silver does not react with clean air and water.
However, it becomes dull upon contact with ozone, hydrogen sulfide, and air polluted with sulfur compounds. Silver halides slowly decompose when exposed to light.