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Wednesday, 23 September 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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Nicotine
Research on the therapeutic effects of nicotine is a very young field of knowledge because so far the focus has been on its negative impact on the body.
Psychiatrists have long wondered why almost 90 percent of patients with schizophrenia and depression ...
NASA
Any astronaut interested in working for NASA has to complete 1 000 hours of flying time.
Liver
The liver can regenerate.
If only as much as 25% of the organ remains, it regenerates to the original size within a few weeks. This is why the liver makes a great donation organ.
Silver
It is approximately 17 times more abundant in the Earth's crust than gold.
Silver is mined in Mexico, Peru, China, Australia, Chile, Poland, Russia, Bolivia, USA, Argentina, Canada, Kazakhstan, India, Turkey, Sweden, Guatemala, Morocco, Indonesia, Iran, and Papua New Guinea.
Phobos
It’s named after a Greek deity.
Phobos was a son of Ares, a god of war. Ares is a counterpart of Mars from Roman mythology.
Liver
Liver filters blood.
It breaks down toxic particles, such as drugs and alcohol. It also destroys old and damaged blood cells.
Moon
The period when the moon orbits the Earth is called a sidereal month, and it lasts 27,3 days.
NASA
The Apollo program launched 11 crew missions between 1968 and 1972.
Out of 11, four were test flights, six ended up delivering men to the Moon, and one had failed to accomplish its goal.
Anorexia Nervosa
One of the psychological characteristics of a potential anorexic is perfectionism in various areas of life and excessive focus on one’s body.
Prospective anorexics are characterized by high intelligence and are often primes at school. Their a ...
Milky Way
Within a radius of 200 thousand, There are as many as 22 galaxies light years from the Milky Way.
All these objects are within the range of the Milky Way's gas halo and are its satellites. The largest of them are the Large Magellanic Cloud, SagDEG, Ursa Major II, and Toucan II.