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Thursday, 3 September 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
Babies can cry for up to three hours a day.
It is their way of communicating their needs, such as hunger, tiredness, or discomfort.
Milky Way
Within a radius of 200 thousand, There are as many as 22 galaxies light years from the Milky Way.
All these objects are within the range of the Milky Way's gas halo and are its satellites. The largest of them are the Large Magellanic Cloud, SagDEG, Ursa Major II, and Toucan II.
Aurora
Australians prefer to use the more accessible term - "southern lights" instead of Aurora Australis.
Silver
Silver is the raw material for the production of coins.
Coins were produced from it as early as the 7th century BC. They were made in an ancient country called Lydia, from an alloy of silver and gold called electrum.
Silver
It is approximately 17 times more abundant in the Earth's crust than gold.
Silver is mined in Mexico, Peru, China, Australia, Chile, Poland, Russia, Bolivia, USA, Argentina, Canada, Kazakhstan, India, Turkey, Sweden, Guatemala, Morocco, Indonesia, Iran, and Papua New Guinea.
Earth
The first man to leave his home planet was Yuri Gagarin.
A two-hour flight by a Soviet astronaut outside the Earth's atmosphere took place in 1961.
Deimos
The composition of Deimos is very similar to that of C- and D-type asteroids.
Silver
The largest silver producer in Europe is Poland.
The Lower Silesian copper and silver deposits, exploited by KGHM Polska Miedź, were in second place ...
Large Magellanic Cloud
It is located approximately 163.000 light-years from the Milky Way.
The measurement error from 2013 is 2.2 percent.
Ganymede
The surface temperature of the moon is about 110 K.