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Friday, 5 December 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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Milky Way
The center of our galaxy can be found in the constellation Sagittarius.
Unfortunately, it cannot be observed directly in the visible spectrum because it is obscured by clou ...
Cosmos
The development of the universe can be divided into five stages.
The very early universe lasted only a picosecond, during which time the laws of physics that we know today had not yet developed.
Titan
The average temperature on its surface is -179.2 degrees Celsius.
Due to the dense atmosphere and its distance from the Sun, only 1% of the amount of light that reach ...
Brain
Thanks to the word patterns stored in memory, a person is able to read the text in which the letters have been mixed.
It is enough for the first and last letters of a word to be in the correct place.
Silver
In alternative medicine, the so-called colloidal silver as a remedy for various ailments.
Taking too large doses of such silver may lead to argyrosis, and discoloration of the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes to a blue-gray color, which is an irreversible process.
Phobos
There is a ridge on the surface of the moon, called the Kepler Dorsum.
It was named after the German astronomer, Johannes Kepler.
Graphene
Polish science contributed to the discovery and revolutionization of graphene production methods.
The key date is 2011 when the Institute of Electronic Materials Technology together with the Faculty ...
Ganymede
Ganymede orbits Jupiter at a distance of 1.070.400 kilometers. The complete orbit takes 7 days and 3 hours.
Phobos
Some even speculate that this body may not come from a nearby asteroid belt, but from the outer regions of the Solar System.
The most recent theory proposes that both Phobos and Deimos shared a common progenitor that shattered upon collision with another object, forming two Mars satellites.
Phobos
Phobos craters are named after astronomers who contributed to the study of the moon, and characters and locations from Jonathan Swift's “Gulliver’s Travels.”
One, for instance, is called “Skyresh,” It was a High Admiral of the Lilliput council.