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Saturday, 16 May 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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Ganymede
The density of the moon is relatively low and amounts to 1.9 g/cm³.
lava
Magma can also solidify deep within the Earth's crust.
It then forms intrusions, bodies of rock that have penetrated between older rock formations. In the ...
lava
Magma can escape to the Earth's surface in the form of lava as a result of a volcanic eruption or through a fracture in the Earth's crust, both on land and underwater.
Lava is similar in composition to magma, but is depleted of volatile components. It consists mainly of molten oxides of silicon, iron, sodium, potassium, calcium, and other metals. 
Titan
The first probe near Titan was Voyager 1.
The flight took place on November 12th, 1980. Several photos were taken from a distance of 4,000 km, ...
NASA
The first NASA Space Shuttle, Columbia, at the end of its final flight on February 1st, 2003, disintegrated upon reentry, which resulted in the death of all seven members of the crew.
Snow
On average, snowflakes are about five millimeters in diameter and weigh about four milligrams.
As temperatures rise, snowflakes become larger as the crystals thaw and then stick together to form ...
Brain
Physical activity is equally important for the proper functioning of the brain, as it helps to create new nerve connections.
Medium-intensity aerobic exercise is considered the most effective.
Cosmos
It is difficult to estimate the approximate number of stars in space.
According to the simples calculation taking into account the number of galaxies and the average numb ...
Mushrooms
Fungi are a separate kingdom, more closely related to animals than to plants.
This is established on the basis of phyologenesis (origin), biochemistry and anatomy. Fungi are reco ...
Aurora
Auroras are not only present on our planet.
They were observed on all the giant planets in the solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.