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Friday, 22 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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Anorexia Nervosa
Environmental factors have a large impact on the onset of anorexia.
The widespread cult of beauty and a slim figure - the promotion of skinny models, excessive physical ...
Ganymede
Ganymede's tectonic activity may have occurred in the past, but it does not occur at present.
Enceladus
Underneath the icy crust is an ocean of liquid water 75 kilometers deep.
Phobos
Phobos rises on the western side of the Martian sky and traverses it for 4 hours and 15 minutes before setting in the east.
NASA
NASA logo is nicknamed the “meatball.”
It was designed by James Modarelli in 1959.
Mushrooms
There are mushrooms that hunt animals.
An example of such a mushroom is the oyster mushroom. When it lacks protein, it hunts nematodes by f ...
NASA
Apollo 13 launched on April 11th, 1970, and was forced to cancel the landing on the lunar surface (precisely on the Fra Mauro site), because of the explosion of an oxygen tank.
Fortunately, the lunar module served as a lifeboat and returned the crew safely back to Earth.
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.
Ganymede
Ganymede's core is composed of iron, which may be partially liquid and is surrounded by a thick mantle made of silicates.
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.