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Sunday, 24 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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Earth
Due to the Earth's rotation, the diameter of the equator is 43 km larger than the polar diameter.
The Earth is therefore a slightly flattened ball - this shape is called a geoid.
Brain
The human brain is made of two hemispheres separated by a longitudinal furrow
Each of the hemispheres is divided into five lobes: frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, and marginal.
Deimos
Unlike Phobos, Deimos rises in the east and sets in the west of the Martian sky.
Fungi
A mushroom called Hydnellum peckii growing in North America, Europe and Asia, secretes a red, bloody substance on a white cap.
It is a very rare mushroom, fully protected in Poland, it is placed on the Red List of Large-bearing Mushrooms with status E, i.e. "extinct".The mushroom is inedible but extremely decorative.
Cosmos
The Solar System is located in the Milky Way.
Our galaxy ranks rather average, its diameter is 100 to 120 thousand light years. Perhaps a unique f ...
NASA
Any astronaut interested in working for NASA has to complete 1 000 hours of flying time.
Silver
Silver is also used in medicine. Its healing properties were already described by Hippocrates.
Its importance in medicine lies in the use of strong antibacterial properties. Before antibiotics were available, silver compounds were used to prevent infections during World War I.
Snow
It is highly likely that no two snowflakes exist and have never existed exactly alike.
Snow crystals are almost perfectly symmetrical, although most are irregular in many respects. The ru ...
Brain
Thanks to the word patterns stored in memory, a person is able to read the text in which the letters have been mixed.
It is enough for the first and last letters of a word to be in the correct place.
Milky Way
It was only in 1610 that Galileo discovered that the Milky Way was made of stars.
Previously, it was believed that it could be part of the Earth's atmosphere or underexposed stars (it was believed that stars shine with light reflected from the Sun) that were in the Earth's shadow.