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Monday, 1 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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Moon
The period when the moon orbits the Earth is called a sidereal month, and it lasts 27,3 days.
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.
Large Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud will collide with the Milky Way in about 2.4 billion years.
Earth
The Earth's atmosphere consists of many gases, most of which is nitrogen.
Nitrogen makes up about 78.1 percent of the atmosphere, oxygen 20.9 percent, and Argon 0.93 percent. ...
Amber
It has been used in jewelry since 13,000 BC.
Silver
Silver is the raw material for the production of coins.
Coins were produced from it as early as the 7th century BC. They were made in an ancient country called Lydia, from an alloy of silver and gold called electrum.
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.
Snow
In 2008, there was a violent snowstorm in Afghanistan.
Temperatures there dropped to – 30 degrees Celsius, and up to 180 centimeters of snow fell in most o ...
Mushrooms
They can be very expensive.
The most valuable mushrooms are the white truffles. For a 1.5 kg specimen was paid 330,000$.
Aurora
The Aurora Australis appears within the Earth's south magnetic pole.
The phenomenon can be observed in Tasmania, a mountainous island about 300 km south of the Australia ...