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Sunday, 23 November 2025
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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Enceladus
During Cassini's flyby on July 14, 2005, the spacecraft found an icy volcano on the moon's south pole.
Phobos
The distance of Phobos from the surface of Mars is only 2.76 times the radius of the planet.
Earth
Earth is a planet full of life. It is inhabited by approximately 11 million species, of which approximately 1.9 million have been described so far.
Below you will find a short list of the most important organisms along with the approximate number o ...
Deimos
An eclipse of Deimos by Mars' shadow occurs on average 110 times per Martian year. Such an eclipse can last up to 4 hours.
Due to the short distance at which Deimos orbits Mars, these eclipses are most often total.
Snow
Snow is one of the airborne hydrometeors-atmospheric precipitation in the form of ice crystals.
These crystals are mainly shaped like six-pointed stars, combining to form snowflakes. After falling to the ground, the snowflakes form a cover-snow.
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.
Ganymede
Ganymede has a very thin atmosphere that is almost 100% of oxygen.
Brain
The smallest brain mammal is the Etruscan shrew. The biggest one - the sperm whale.
The Etruscan shrew is also the smallest of the currently known mammals.
Tears
Babies can cry for up to three hours a day.
It is their way of communicating their needs, such as hunger, tiredness, or discomfort.
Aurora
There are two types of auroras: northern - Aurora Borealis, and southern - Aurora Australis.