Scientists Discover Diamond Rain on Uranus and Neptune: Myth Busted

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Diamond rain is no longer a myth. On the planets Uranus and Neptune, this phenomenon occurs regularly.

Researchers in Germany exposed the phenomenon with plastic to demonstrate precipitation on both planets. But keep in mind that diamond precipitation on both is different from rain on Earth.

German HZDR physicist and study author Dominik Kraus describes where diamonds form beneath the planet’s surface which has a hot, dense liquid. It slowly sinks into a rocky core more than 10,000 kilometers away, where massive diamond beds extend for hundreds of kilometers.

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The researchers tried to replicate the situation on the two planets. Namely by finding the required mixture of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen with a PET plastic source.

Plastic itself comes from everyday packaging and bottles. The research team then turned a high-powered optical laser into plastic at California’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Sciene AlertWednesday (12/7/2023).

According to Kraus, the X-ray flashes are very brief and of extraordinary brightness. From this process it will be seen that the process of small nano-diamonds.

“Oxygen, which is present in large quantities on these planets, really helps suck up the hydrogen atoms from the carbon, so diamonds are actually easier to form,” he said.

But diamond rain research, Science Alert say still hypothetical. The reason is because the data and information about Uranus and Neptune are still very little.

Only one NASA Voyager 2 spacecraft has reached both planets. Data used from aircraft since 1980 is still used today.

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