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Thursday, 1 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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Titan
It can hide life beneath its surface.
While its surface may be barren, it is likely that beneath its icy surface there may be an ocean tha ...
Earth
It is similar with the oceans - depending on the divisions, there are from three to five of them.
We distinguish oceans: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. The basic ones are considere ...
Deimos
Deimos is suspected to be a stray asteroid that was directed towards Mars by Jupiter's gravitational field.
lava
Magma can also solidify deep within the Earth's crust.
It then forms intrusions, bodies of rock that have penetrated between older rock formations. In the ...
Large Magellanic Cloud
Whether the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds orbit the Milky Way has not yet been definitively confirmed, as research conducted by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006 may suggest that the speed of these objects is too high for our galaxy to support them.
Moon
The period when the moon orbits the Earth is called a sidereal month, and it lasts 27,3 days.
Anorexia Nervosa
The disease causes several symptoms from the body’s functioning.
Loss of body fat and muscle, resulting in emaciation and cachexia Lowering of body temperature belo ...
Mushrooms
The element that distinguishes fungi from animal is the presence of cell walls and vacuoles, which in turn brings them closer to plants.
Fungi do not carry out photosynthesis, the cell walls of most fungi contain chitin, which is not fou ...
Tears
Tears are distributed evenly by blinking.
Deimos
The dimensions of Deimos are 15 x 12 x 10.4 km.
Due to its small size, it is not a spherical object.