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A proposal that diamonds may also form in Jupiter and Saturn, where the concentration of carbon is far lower, was considered unlikely because the diamonds would quickly dissolve. [16] Experiments looking for conversion of methane to diamonds found weak signals and did not reach the temperatures and pressures expected in Uranus and Neptune.
Hot atmospheres could have iron rain, [107] molten-glass rain, [108] and rain made from rocky minerals such as enstatite, corundum, spinel, and wollastonite. [109] Deep in the atmospheres of gas giants, it could rain diamonds [110] and helium containing dissolved neon. [111]
[77] [78] [79] Scientists believe that this kind of diamond rain occurs on Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. [80] [78] Very-high-pressure experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory suggest that the top of the mantle may be an ocean of liquid carbon with floating solid 'diamonds'. [81] [82] [83]
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Scientists have finally discovered how sheets of diamond rain form on the ice giants, Neptune and Uranus. The answer could explain why Neptune’s core is hot.
The composition of Jupiter's atmosphere is similar to that of the planet as a whole. [1] Jupiter's atmosphere is the most comprehensively understood of those of all the giant planets because it was observed directly by the Galileo atmospheric probe when it entered the Jovian atmosphere on December 7, 1995. [28]
In modern times, numerous impact events on Jupiter have been observed, the most significant of which was the collision of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1994. Jupiter is the most massive planet in the Solar System and thus has a vast sphere of gravitational influence, the region of space where an asteroid capture can take place under favorable ...
In science class, we always learned that all the planets in our solar system orbit around the sun. Scientists have figured out this is not necessarily true.