It rains diamonds inside Neptune and Uranus — and no one can collect them. Deep beneath the blue-green clouds, crushing pressure tears methane apart and the freed carbon crystallizes into solid diamond, which sinks for thousands of kilometers as a literal diamond rain.
In this video you will learn:
- Why ice giants Neptune and Uranus are thought to rain diamonds deep inside
- How SLAC scientists recreated diamond rain on Earth in 2017 by blasting plastic with an X-ray laser
- Why the 2024 follow-up suggests the rain zone is larger and may tilt their magnetic fields
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