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Friday, 28 November 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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Anorexia Nervosa
The rate of relapse after treatment ranges from 9 to 52 percent, with many studies reporting a relapse rate of at least 25 percent.
Relapse occurs in about one-third of people in the hospital and is greatest in the first six to 18 months after discharge from the facility.
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 ...
NASA
The first NASA Space Shuttle, Columbia, at the end of its final flight on February 1st, 2003, disintegrated upon reentry, which resulted in the death of all seven members of the crew.
Cosmos
The largest crater in the Solar System is located on the surface of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.
The crater has a diameter of 15.600 kilometers and was discovered on 7th August 2020. So far it has not been named.
Milky Way
The solar system is 27.000 light years away from the center of the Milky Way.
It is located on the inner side of the Orion Arm, one of at least four arms of the galaxy. Their exa ...
Moon
Up to 14.000 square kilometers of the Moon's surface may remain in perpetual shadow.
Water is most likely to be present in these places.
Phobos
The area of ​​Phobos is 1,548.3 square kilometers.
Graphene
Carbon is capable of creating many allotropes due to its valence.
In nature, it occurs in large quantities in basically only three allotropic varieties: graphite, dia ...
Milky Way
The center of our galaxy can be found in the constellation Sagittarius.
Unfortunately, it cannot be observed directly in the visible spectrum because it is obscured by clou ...
Graphene
Since the beginning of the 21st century, many companies and research laboratories have been working on developing commercial applications of graphene.
In 2014, the National Graphene Institute was established at the University of Manchester for this pu ...