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Sunday, 25 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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Ganymede
The Moon is the only one in the Solar System that has a dipole magnetic field capable of creating a magnetosphere.
Phobos
Some even speculate that this body may not come from a nearby asteroid belt, but from the outer regions of the Solar System.
The most recent theory proposes that both Phobos and Deimos shared a common progenitor that shattered upon collision with another object, forming two Mars satellites.
Enceladus
On February 17 and March 9, 2005, the Cassini spacecraft flew by the moon and discovered the moon's faint and thin atmosphere.
Snow
It is highly likely that no two snowflakes exist and have never existed exactly alike.
Snow crystals are almost perfectly symmetrical, although most are irregular in many respects. The ru ...
Silver
Silver compounds are used to silver mirrors and to produce explosives (e.g. silver acetylides).
They are also used in analytical chemistry, e.g. to detect aldehydes (Tollens test).
Tears
Tears are primarily made of water.
They also consist of fatty oils, salt, and proteins.
Graphene
Graphene is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a two-dimensional honeycomb nanostructure (an intermediate-sized structure between microscopic and molecular structures).
Allotropy is the phenomenon of the existence of different varieties of the same chemical element in ...
Cosmos
There are about 200 trillion galaxies in the universe.
Each has a different composition and size. The largest galaxies can span up to 2 million light years.
Nicotine
Nicotine affects the human body in many different ways because it binds permanently and blocks the action of dozens of different types of enzymes.
In small doses, it has a stimulating effect on the body, causing increased secretion of adrenaline. ...
Liver
Drinking caffeinated beverages, especially green tea and coffee, benefits the well-being of the liver.