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Monday, 24 August 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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lava
During a volcanic eruption, several hundred cubic meters of lava are usually ejected.
These volumes can vary, sometimes being very large, such as during the eruption of the Laki rift vol ...
Moon
The average time between new moons is 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 3 seconds. We call this period the synodic month.
It is longer than the sidereal month because in the process of illuminating the moon's disk, we must take into account the movement of the Moon itself, as well as the Earth and the Sun.
Milky Way
Until 1920, most astronomers believed that the Milky Way contained all the stars in the universe.
Only observations made by Edwin Hubble made humanity realize that it is only one of many galaxies.
Tears
Tears are distributed evenly by blinking.
Graphene
Another potential area of application of graphene is materials engineering.
Very high-quality graphene could be combined with other materials, e.g. rubber or plastics, which wo ...
Deimos
The area of Deimos is only 483,05 square kilometers.
Silver
Silver has been used in photographic technology.
It is used there to obtain silver halides (primarily silver bromide) used as photosensitive substances.
Snow
It is highly likely that no two snowflakes exist and have never existed exactly alike.
Snow crystals are almost perfectly symmetrical, although most are irregular in many respects. The ru ...
lava
Underwater eruption produces pillow lava.
It cools very quickly and splits into ellipsoidal, usually flattened lobes resembling pillows or loa ...
Aurora
Auroras are caused by magnetic storms in the Sun.
Huge amounts of high-energy charged particles (mainly protons and electrons) are then ejected from t ...