Scientists Recreate the Melting ‘Diamond Rain’ of Neptune and Uranus. It May Help Fusion Power
Beneath their thin upper atmospheres, our solar system neighbors Neptune and Uranus are literally raining diamonds into their high-pressure, high-temperature middle atmospheres. The conditions there are so extreme that researchers were only able to replicate them in a test space less than a few thousandths of an inch (or a few hundred micrometers) thick, using … Read more