High pressure experiments suggest large amounts of diamonds are formed from methane on the ice giant planetsThere are four known giant planets in the Solar System: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Giant_planet
The diamond rain phenomenon is believed by some scientists to take place on Uranus and Neptune in our solar system.
New research by scientists apparently shows that it rains diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn. In fact the planets have the capability to create 1000 tonnes of diamonds a year.
We think that, as a result, a thick layer of carbon surrounds the rocky cores of Uranus and Neptune. This carbon layer may consist of blocks of solid diamond—or, if the temperature is extremely high (as some planet models suggest), it might transform into liquid carbon, or a mix of solid carbon and liquid carbon.
Many more diamonds in the sky!
At the greatest depths of Jupiter's atmosphere, the conditions are so extreme that the gems may actually form oceans of liquid diamond. In addition to Saturn and Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have also been famed for their diamond studded skies.
NASA is on a mission to explore a Greek-named asteroid called 16 Psyche that contains a double-edged sword. Made completely of metal, it boasts enough gold to either make every person on Earth a billionaire—or to collapse the gold market and destabilize the entire global financial world.
On saturn, it literally rains diamonds.
Tidally locked hot Jupiter WASP-121b has an atmosphere so hot on one side that it breaks down water molecules and rains rubies and sapphires.
A new study has found that “diamond rain” may be more common on ice giant planets like Neptune and Uranus than previously thought. For the first time, scientists were able to observe diamond rain as it formed with their experiment designed to mimic the extreme temperatures and pressure found on those planets.
Scientists have found evidence of cubic zirconia in Moon rocks, showing that the universe not only holds diamonds, but its own fire-safe knock-offs.
Precipitation is much more widespread throughout the Solar System than commonly assumed. Obviously it rains water on Earth. But it snows carbon dioxide on Mars, rains methane on Titan, sulfuric acid on Venus, and could potentially rain diamonds on Neptune.
Next time you visit Jupiter remember to take an umbrella with you. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have discovered that drops of helium rain, laced with neon, could be falling from the clouds. Somewhere deep inside Jupiter it is raining helium. Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.
The temperature here would be about 55,000 Fahrenheit (30,000 Celsius) and the pressure would be tremendous because of the weight of the atmosphere above. So, if it is a solid surface, it's not at all like what you would find on a rocky planet, and it's not something you could walk on.
High pressure experiments suggest large amounts of diamonds are formed from methane on the ice giant planets Uranus and Neptune, while some planets in other planetary systems may be almost pure diamond. Diamonds are also found in stars and may have been the first mineral ever to have formed.
In addition, lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, niobium, molybdenum, lanthanum, europium, tungsten, and gold have been found in trace amounts.
There is a large diamond on Venus. This diamond helped to prove that Murphy's Law works on other planets besides Earth. The Soviets used the diamond as a front glass to protect the lens of the camera on their spacecraft. Venera 13 and Venera 14 sent back colour photographs of the surface of Venus.
The rings of Uranus, while invisible to all but the largest telescopes, are surprisingly bright in new heat images of the planet taken by two large telescopes in the high deserts of Chile.
It's coming from compounds called tholins that are raining out of Pluto's atmosphere. I prefer another name for those compounds: "organic brown gunk." That's what Sarah Hörst calls them in a detailed post at the Planetary Society blog about the processes that produce tholins.
Saturn's moon Enceladus has geysers that shoot water vapor out into space. It then freezes and falls back to the surface as snow.
Mars has a reddish color because of the iron oxides (rust) on its surface.
Rings. Uranus has two sets of rings. The inner system of nine rings consists mostly of narrow, dark grey rings. There are two outer rings: the innermost one is reddish like dusty rings elsewhere in the solar system, and the outer ring is blue like Saturn's E ring.
This makes Pluto a cold place covered with ice, and its surface is between negative 378 to negative 396 degrees Fahrenheit. Its thin atmosphere includes nitrogen, methane and carbon dioxide, and although the skies are blue on Pluto, the snow is red because of its chemical composition.
Named GJ 504b, the planet is made of pink gas. It's similar to Jupiter, a giant gas planet in our own solar system. But GJ 504b is four times more massive. At 460°F, it's the temperature of a hot oven, and it's the planet's intense heat that causes it to glow.
Venus's surface is covered by toxic acid rain clouds, making it hard to study. Additionally, its surface temperature is more than 860 degrees Fahrenheit, making landing spacecraft an impossibility.
Since Venus does not experience rainfall (except in the form of sulfuric acid), it has been theorized that the lightning is being caused by a volcanic eruption. What is the weather like on Venus? Terrible, would be the short answer.