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Tuesday, 16 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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Graphene
Graphene has the potential to replace silicon in many applications.
Graphene can be used to create microprocessors a thousand times more efficient than those we know to ...
Mushrooms
There are mushrooms that hunt animals.
An example of such a mushroom is the oyster mushroom. When it lacks protein, it hunts nematodes by f ...
lava
Magma is found not only under the Earth's surface.
It has also been found on other rocky planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars) and some natural satellites (moons).
Moon
The Moon's magnetic field is over 100 times weaker than the Earth's and ranges from 1 to 100 nanotesla.
It is not dipolar, so it is assumed that its source is not the nucleus but the crust.
Moon
Despite its synchronous rotation, the Moon is constantly tilted to one side or the other.
Such deviations are called librations and thanks to them it is possible to observe as much as 59 percent of the surface of the silver globe from Earth.
Large Magellanic Cloud
It is located approximately 163.000 light-years from the Milky Way.
The measurement error from 2013 is 2.2 percent.
Amber
There was a chamber decorated with six tonnes of amber, known as the Amber Room.
Created for Frederick I of Prussia at the beginning of the 18th century, it was given as a token of ...
Silver
Silver is also used in the production of electrical and electronic equipment, high-voltage contacts, solder, high-capacity silver-zinc and silver-cadmium batteries, and photovoltaic cells.
Silver is the only catalyst that allows the conversion of ethylene into ethylene oxide, which then undergoes hydrolysis to produce ethylene glycol, used to produce polyester.
Aurora
There are two types of auroras: northern - Aurora Borealis, and southern - Aurora Australis.
Enceladus
It is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn.