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Title: It's raining diamonds! Written by: duddy on Oct 17, 2013 (https://biology-forums.com/gallery/47/4_17_10_13_5_17_57.jpeg) (https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=14158) It’s raining diamonds in Jupiter and Saturn. Dr. Kevin Bates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison said that lightning storms in these two planets turn methane into soot. As it falls, soot hardens into chunks of graphite and then diamonds. Bates speculates that about 1,000 tonnes of diamonds are produced on Saturn every year. Comments: A person in my class mentioned this today. I brushed-off the idea, but oddly hours later, I'm reading it on a blog :P Written by: padre on Oct 18, 2013 |