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Tuesday, 13 October 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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Mushrooms
Fungi live in symbiosis with microorganisms, higher plants (Embryophyte) and animals.
With many plants, they form mycorrhiza (symbiotic association of roots or seeds of vascular plants w ...
Cosmos
The exact size of the universe cannot be estimated.
We can perceive only the visible region of it (one from which light can move faster than the expandi ...
lava
Underwater eruption produces pillow lava.
It cools very quickly and splits into ellipsoidal, usually flattened lobes resembling pillows or loa ...
Anorexia Nervosa
The history of anorexia begins with descriptions of religious fasts dating from the Hellenistic era to the medieval period.
Many famous historical figures are believed to have suffered from the disease, including Catherine of Siena, and Mary, Queen of Scots.
Enceladus
The results of the study of data provided by the Cosmic Dust Analyzer spectrometer on board the Cassini spacecraft showed that among the material fired by Enceladus' geysers, there are organic compounds that create amino acids.
Fungi
What distinguishes fungi from animals is the presence of cell walls and vacuoles, which in turn makes them closer to plants.
Fungi do not perform photosynthesis, the cell walls of most fungi contain chitin, which does not occ ...
Earth
The Earth orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit in 365.235 days.
The average distance from the Sun is 150 million km and ranges from 147.09 million km at the periapsis to 152.09 million km at the apsis.
Phobos
There is a ridge on the surface of the moon, called the Kepler Dorsum.
It was named after the German astronomer, Johannes Kepler.
Moon
Up to 14.000 square kilometers of the Moon's surface may remain in perpetual shadow.
Water is most likely to be present in these places.
Fungi
Fungi were considered a separate kingdom, more closely related to animals than to plants.
This was determined based on phylogeny (origin), biochemistry, and anatomy. Fungi are considered to ...