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Thursday, 11 December 2025
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
Fungi live in symbiosis with microorganisms, higher plants (Embryophyte) and animals.
With many plants, they form mycorrhiza (symbiotic association of roots or seeds of vascular plants w ...
Amber
Amber comes in various shapes and a wide range of shades.
Shapes resemble raindrops, rods, or lenses, and vary in shades of yellow, red, orange, brown, and even white opaque. Approximately 300 colors have been cataloged up to this day.
Graphene
Graphene has the potential to replace silicon in many applications.
Graphene can be used to create microprocessors a thousand times more efficient than those we know to ...
Silver
Silver is also used in the production of electrical and electronic equipment, high-voltage contacts, solder, high-capacity silver-zinc and silver-cadmium batteries, and photovoltaic cells.
Silver is the only catalyst that allows the conversion of ethylene into ethylene oxide, which then undergoes hydrolysis to produce ethylene glycol, used to produce polyester.
Tears
Basal tears production drops with age.
Especially common for women, it is a result of hormonal changes after menopause.
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 ...
Moon
The Moon is so far the only celestial body on which humans have landed.
The first successful landing on the Moon took place on July 20, 1969, at 21:17 CET. Shortly after la ...
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.
Cosmos
The next stage was the Dark Ages and the formation of large cosmic structures.
This period lasted from 370 thousand to 1 billion years after the Big Bang. During this time, matter ...
Moon
Selenographic coordinates are used to determine coordinates on the lunar surface.