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Saturday, 12 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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NASA
After the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA began the development of the Commercial Crew Program (CCP).
It is a joint program with private corporations—SpaceX, Boeing, and the Sierra Nevada. SpaceX provid ...
Graphene
Although graphene consists of an element that is abundant on Earth, its production costs are high.
This is a major obstacle to graphene finding mass application in many fields. For now, only small amounts are produced.
Cosmos
The largest canyon both on Mars and in the entire Solar System is Valles Marineris, which stretches 400 kilometers, is 200 kilometers wide, and 10 kilometers deep.
The canyon is located just below the Martian equator.
Silver
Silver is a metal slightly harder than gold.
It is a very ductile and malleable metal with a shiny luster and can be easily polished.
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.
Titan
Its surface is highly geologically diverse.
It is covered in lighter and darker areas: seas, lakes, bays, islands, rivers, canals, mountain ridges, valleys, fjords, and dunes.
Phobos
Phobos is one of the two natural satellites orbiting Mars.
It is bigger than its companion, Deimos.
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.
Aurora
Auroras take many shapes. They can appear in the form of colored rays, streaks, ribbons, curtains, crowns, arcs, and others.
Graphene
In diamond, each of carbon’s four valence electrons is involved in the formation of such bonds.
As a result, diamond is a transparent, non-reactive insulator, and graphite is a black conductor, susceptible to chemical modifications.