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Thursday, 15 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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Tears
Watery eyes may be a signal of dry eye syndrome.
Dry eye syndrome is caused by insufficient quantity or quality of tears, which prevents the proper lubrication of eyeballs. It causes excessive watering of the eyes, as a response to the irritation.
Deimos
The surface of Deimos is covered with a few craters.
These craters are less visible than on the other moon because they are filled with regolith (rock dust).
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.
Titan
Most of the dunes are located near the equator.
They stretch for hundreds of kilometers, and their height reaches 100 meters. Unlike Earth’s, Titan’s dunes are made of organic compounds.
Aurora
The particles that make up the solar wind, upon contact with the Earth's magnetic field, spiral along the lines of this field and collide near the magnetic poles with molecules of nitrogen and oxygen, etc.
They arouse them, and these, returning to the ground state, radiate energy in the form of light quanta.
Aurora
It is believed that the aurora phenomenon may occur on all other extrasolar planets that have a magnetic field and a magnetosphere exposed to stellar winds.
The resolution of the telescopes does not make it possible to capture an image of this phenomenon, but the emission of radio waves accompanying the aurora can be detected using radio telescopes.
Mushrooms
The science that studies fungi is mycology. Mycologists have developed several classification systems for fungi.
A less official classification groups fungi due to: Thallus form - large-fruited fungi and microsco ...
Graphene
Graphene can be used in the biomedical field for diagnostic purposes.
It shows therapeutic potential as a drug carrier. It can also be used in tissue engineering because ...
Phobos
Phobos’ orbit decreases by about 1,8 meters every 100 years.
In about 50 million years, the moon could be torn apart by Mars’ tidal forces or fall to its surface.
Titan
Several of Titan’s mountains are named for mountains from J. R. R. Tolkien literature (i.e. Moria Montes), and colles (collection of hills) are named after Tolkien’s characters (i.e. Arwen).