Interesting: Each year, about 1,000 tons of diamonds rained down Saturn and Jupiter

   


Following interesting statistics can surprise you?

Scientists estimate the annual US diamond Saturn poured up to a million kilograms.

Diamonds are formed from carbon in the conditions of temperature and pressure. On Earth, the diamond was born at a depth of about 160 kilometers underground. Then, the flow of volcanic magma brought diamonds to near the ground, according to Tech Insider.

Diamonds form between the atmospheres of Saturn and Jupiter. (Artwork: ABC News).

However, in the dense atmosphere of planets with giant size and gravity as strong as Saturn and Jupiter, high pressure and temperature can compress carbon in the air and createddiamond rain .

For years, scientists speculate diamond exists very much at the core of the gas planets smaller with lower temperatures, Neptune and Uranus. They believe that the atmosphere of two large gas planets Saturn and Jupiter are not suitable for creating diamonds.

Super big pressure on Saturn condensed carbon into diamonds floating in the ocean of methane and liquid hydrogen. (Photo: NASA).

Changing notions on when the researchers analyzed the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere of Jupiter and Saturn, then modeling the reaction of carbon. They concludediamond rain likely take place on the two planets.

Diamonds are formed in large numbers in the area frequent heavy lightning storm raging on Saturn, according to Kevin Baines, a researcher at the University of Madison-Wisconsin and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Aviation Agency American universe. Each year, the amount of diamond Saturn can pour down to nearly one million kilograms (approximately 1,000 tons).

Jupiter and Saturn are the two giant planet. (Photo: NASA).

"Diamonds began to appear in the form of methane . The lightning storm raging on two giant planet turns methane into soot. When soot falls, the pressure acting on it added. After falling about 1,600 kilometers, turn into graphite black bars " , explained Baines.

Graphite continues to fall. When compounds fall through approximately 6.000km and advancing several of Saturn's atmosphere, super great pressure condensed carbon into diamonds floating in a sea of ​​liquid methane and hydrogen.

According to Baines, after falling through 30,000, pressure and temperature that diamonds can not exist in the form of hardware that melted into molten carbon.

according VNE