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Diamond Rain May Fill Skies of Jupiter and Saturn
Sounds crazy, right?
Here’s what happens (or so say the science people!). Jupiter and Saturn comprise a massive amount of methane gas in their atmospheres, which when struck by lightning, turns into ‘soot’. Now, when soot falls from upper atmosphere, the intense pressure of gas combined with crazy proportions of heat, turn it into super precious stones.
Dr. Kevin Baines, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, stated that “Once you get down to those extreme depths, the pressure and temperature is so hellish, there’s no way the diamonds could remain solid.”Hence, the melt-down near the core, resulting in the dramatic ‘rain’. Get the picture now?
But not having been there, how can we be so sure of it? Because, “It all boils down to the chemistry. And we think we’re pretty certain,”Dr. Baines, also adding the fact that one thousand tonnes of diamonds are being created on Saturn, every single year!
Although diamonds on Earth are rare, extraterrestrial diamonds(diamonds formed outside of Earth) are very common.
Diamond Rain May Fill Skies of Jupiter and Saturn
Sounds crazy, right?
Here’s what happens (or so say the science people!). Jupiter and Saturn comprise a massive amount of methane gas in their atmospheres, which when struck by lightning, turns into ‘soot’. Now, when soot falls from upper atmosphere, the intense pressure of gas combined with crazy proportions of heat, turn it into super precious stones.
But not having been there, how can we be so sure of it? Because, “It all boils down to the chemistry. And we think we’re pretty certain,”Dr. Baines, also adding the fact that one thousand tonnes of diamonds are being created on Saturn, every single year!
Although diamonds on Earth are rare, extraterrestrial diamonds(diamonds formed outside of Earth) are very common.