Rome, October 15 (TMNews) – Rains of liquid diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn planets on which would float also huge iceberg of diamond. This was revealed by a study published by the California Specialty Engineering of Pasadena in the U.S., according to which pieces of diamond could float in the fluid of hydrogen and helium that make up the atmosphere of the two giant planets of the solar system. At greater depths, the pressure and extreme temperatures melt the precious gems, causing real diamond rains liquids, according to the researchers. “The new data have confirmed that in depth, the diamonds could float on Saturn, some so large that they could be called ‘diamondberg’” writes Mona Delitsky of California Specialty Engineering and Kevin Baines of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, authors of the research presented at the annual meeting in Denver Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society.
The diamonds can be formed when carbon in the form of graphite or soot created by the huge electrical storms in Saturn’s atmosphere, falls deep into the atmosphere and is compacted by pressure to form the gem. The solid diamonds then continue their descent into the depths of the planet, where, near the nucleus, liquefy.
Scientists speculate that some time relatively stable diamond nuclei compose the relatively cold planets such as Neptune and Uranus, far away from the Sun, but until now it was thought that Jupiter and Saturn were too hot to allow the formation of solid diamond. But thanks to robotic probes, men will be able in the future to extract diamonds from Jupiter and Saturn. Baines and Delitsky have even written a book in which he forecast that spaceships mining, piloted by robots in the future will be able to collect diamonds on the two planets and bring them back sula Earth.OTHER NEWS TOPIC
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