Raining Diamonds On Uranus!

Gas Giant Uranus has a most distinctive weather condition: It rains massive amounts of huge diamonds!

Scientists suspected for some time that the intense pressure in the atmosphere of Uranus could result in diamond rain, but confirming it proved to be difficult.

However, researchers at Stanford University's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have now succeeded in simulating conditions on Uranus, and have observed this amazing weather phenomenon for themselves.

The diamonds observed during the experiment were very small, but on Uranus, they say, it is likely that the diamonds falling from the sky are gigantic, and perhaps up to a few million carats in size!

The diamonds either melt down into a sea of molten diamonds, or remain solid and form a layer of diamonds around Uranus's core.

Someday, we may be able to mine Uranus for diamonds! Just imagine a planet whose core is encrusted with giant diamonds!

Of course, you'd need a spacesuit that could withstand temperatures of -357 degrees Fahrenheit, and also protect you not only from the predominately hydrogen and helium gasses of the outer atmosphere, but the presence of methane near the planet's interior, where you would be spending most of your time, in order to mine the diamonds.

(Other gas giants in our solar system are Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune)

(Tech Times)

Imagine, instead of diamonds raining ON Uranus, if you could just get diamonds to rain FROM...well, you know.

(Might be a follow-up song there, to Paul Simon's 1986 hit, "Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes.")