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Monday, 15 June 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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Snow
Snow accumulates in areas cold enough to remain there seasonally or all the time.
The main areas prone to snow are the Artic, Antarctica, the northern hemisphere, and alpine regions.
Nicotine
Nicotine is also used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
The therapy uses patches containing nicotine, which is perfectly absorbed through the skin. Just 45 ...
Phobos
Phobos’ orbit decreases by about 1,8 meters every 100 years.
In about 50 million years, the moon could be torn apart by Mars’ tidal forces or fall to its surface.
Enceladus
Enceladus' geysers are the main source of material in Saturn's E ring.
This material also reaches Saturn's atmosphere, where water from the Enceladus eruption can be found.
Cosmos
The largest galaxy that has been spotted so far is IC 1101.
Located 1.04 billion light-years from Earth, this giant has a diameter of more than two million ligh ...
Ganymede
The moon's mantle is surrounded by layers of ice and salty liquid water.
These layers alternate. The surface of the moon consists of hard ice several kilometers thick.
Cosmos
We are currently living in the fourth stage of the universe’s development.
It resembles the one 12.8 billion years ago and will continue to look like this for the next billions of years.
Milky Way
The disk of dark matter surrounding the Milky Way is about 2 million light-years in diameter.
It interacts with visible matter only gravitationally and remains invisible and undetectable in any other way. It is estimated that 90 percent of the mass of the Milky Way is dark matter.
Silver
Silver has the lowest contact resistance among all metals.
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 ...