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Ultrafine particles are aerosols less than 0.1 micrometers, or 100 nanometers, in diameter — about one-thousandth the width of a human hair.
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Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
The eclipse lasted about 30 seconds, which makes the minutes-long solar eclipses seen from Earth seem epic — but the events are comparatively brief on Mars because Phobos is about 157 times smaller in diameter than Earth’s moon, according to NASA.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
Miranda is the smallest of Uranus' large moons—after Titania, Oberon, Umbriel and Ariel—at about 290 miles in diameter, about one-seventh the size of our moon.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Seven feet tall and 12 feet in diameter, Blue Ghost is flying cargo under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
—Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
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Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
The eclipse lasted about 30 seconds, which makes the minutes-long solar eclipses seen from Earth seem epic — but the events are comparatively brief on Mars because Phobos is about 157 times smaller in diameter than Earth’s moon, according to NASA.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
Miranda is the smallest of Uranus' large moons—after Titania, Oberon, Umbriel and Ariel—at about 290 miles in diameter, about one-seventh the size of our moon.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Seven feet tall and 12 feet in diameter, Blue Ghost is flying cargo under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
—Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Diameter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diameter. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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