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Friday, 1 May 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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Snow
On average, snowflakes are about five millimeters in diameter and weigh about four milligrams.
As temperatures rise, snowflakes become larger as the crystals thaw and then stick together to form ...
Earth
Throughout its history, Earth has had four different atmospheres.
At first, it was surrounded by a primordial atmosphere, which consisted of the remains of proto-plan ...
NASA
NASA logo is nicknamed the “meatball.”
It was designed by James Modarelli in 1959.
Mushrooms
The mushroom called Entoloma hochstetteri is a mushroom with a blue fruiting body color.
Its image is featured on the back of a New Zealand 50-dollar note from 2002.
Earth
The Earth, like all planets in space, is doomed to destruction.
Life on the surface of our planet has been wiped out many times by great cataclysms called great ext ...
Brain
The brain produces about 25 watts of energy.
It does not happen that the brain does not function even for a nanosecond. It constantly analyzes, t ...
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 ...
Fungi
Mushrooms are an important component of the circulation of matter in nature, they are decomposers - the last link in the food chain.
They are the only organisms that can decompose lignin and are important in the decomposition of cell ...
Brain
The human brain is made of two hemispheres separated by a longitudinal furrow
Each of the hemispheres is divided into five lobes: frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, and marginal.
Moon
The period when the moon orbits the Earth is called a sidereal month, and it lasts 27,3 days.