1000 tons of diamonds poured down on Saturn and Jupiter every year

American scientists estimate that every year the amount of diamonds pouring into Saturn can be up to a million kilograms.

Diamonds are formed from carbon in conditions of high temperature and pressure. On Earth, diamonds were born at a depth of about 160km underground. Later, volcanic magma streams bring diamonds near the ground, according to Tech Insider.

Diamonds form between Saturn's atmosphere and Jupiter.(Artwork: ABC News).

However, in the dense atmosphere of giant-sized planets and strong gravity like Saturn and Jupiter, high pressure and temperature can compress carbon in mid-air and produce diamond rain. .

For many years, scientists speculated that diamonds existed very much at the core of smaller gas planets with lower temperatures, Neptune and Uranus. They believe that the atmosphere of two large planets, Saturn and Jupiter, is not suitable for creating diamonds.

Super pressure on Saturn concentrates carbon into diamonds floating in the sea of ​​methane and liquid hydrogen.(Photo: NASA).

This concept changes when researchers analyze the pressure and temperature of Saturn and Jupiter's atmosphere, then model the reaction of carbon. They concluded that diamond rain is more likely to take place on these two planets.

Diamonds formed in large numbers in large areas often have lightning storms on Saturn, according to Kevin Baines, a researcher at Madison-Wisconsin University and the Aeronautics Propulsion Laboratory of Aviation American Universe. Each year, the amount of diamond pouring into Saturn can reach nearly a million kilograms (1,000 tons).

Jupiter and Saturn are two giant planets.(Photo: NASA).

"Diamonds begin to appear in the form of methane . Severe lightning storms on two giant planets turn methane gas into soot. When soot falls, the pressure on it increases. After falling about 1,600km, soot turns into graphite, " Baines explained.

Graphite continues to fall. When the compound fell through about 6,000km and deepened several of Saturn's atmospheres, super-heavy carbon condensate into diamonds floating in the sea of ​​methane and liquid hydrogen.

According to Baines, after falling through 30,000km, the pressure and temperature make diamonds impossible to survive in hard form but dissolve into molten carbon.