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Lab experiments simulating Uranus and Neptune suggest what bizarre kind of weather deep inside those planets?

Today · 2026-09-06 UTC

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Extreme pressure can squeeze carbon-hydrogen mixtures into diamonds that then sink through the mantle: "diamond rain." SLAC and partners have recreated diamond formation from hydrocarbons, recently at milder pressures than once assumed.

Correct answer: Rain made of diamonds

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