
Daniel answers Listener Questions about diamond rain on Jupiter, travel near the speed of light and the tilt of Uranus.
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Are There Diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter?
Methane is a very carbonaceous molecule, and so has those raw materials. These days, we think that jupiter, which has less methane, also has enough to be making diamonds. And nobody actually knows how big these diamonds can get. They might just be small, like super tiny nano-diamonds. Or it could be that they accumulate, like hail falling in the earth's atmosphere,. gathering up more and more water. You could even get these, like massive diamond bergs, they call them, arming in the interior of j Jupiter.
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