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Sunday, 17 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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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.
Amber
Amber comes in various shapes and a wide range of shades.
Shapes resemble raindrops, rods, or lenses, and vary in shades of yellow, red, orange, brown, and even white opaque. Approximately 300 colors have been cataloged up to this day.
lava
The temperature of lava, depending on its composition, can range from 700 to 1,200 °C.
Beyond Earth, lava can reach even higher temperatures; the record holder is Io, Jupiter's moon, where satellites have recorded lava flows with an average temperature of 1,300 °C (2,370 °F).
Enceladus
Underneath the icy crust is an ocean of liquid water 75 kilometers deep.
Aurora
The greatest intensity of auroras occurs at maximum solar activity - this happens every eleven years.
Then you can observe auroras also in Europe.
Mushrooms
Multicellular organisms are the most numerous group among fungi, but there are also single-celled fungi, like yeast.
A distinctive feature of fungi is the cell walls built of chitin. The fungus cell can be mononuclear ...
Amber
The largest deposit of amber comes from the Baltic Sea region.
The Baltic amber is the highest quality.
Nicotine
Tobacco, whose leaves are the source of nicotine, was cultivated by people living in America two thousand years before its discovery by Columbus.
It came to Europe in the 16th century and both tobacco and the nicotine it contained were originally ...
Anorexia Nervosa
There are two main types of anorexia.
The restrictive type, in which starvation predominates Gluttonous-excessive type, in which the patient overeats uncontrollably, induces vomiting, uses laxatives
Fungi
Mushrooms are of great importance in the development of civilization, due to their key role in the production of bread and wine.
Many species of mushrooms are used in food production: bread, alcohol, and cheese. Some of them, suc ...