Hiding beneath the outer layers of some planets, there may be something spectacular: a constant rain of diamonds.
, are made almost entirely of gas: hydrogen and helium. It's through the rapid accretion of those elements that these huge planets managed to swell to their current size.
But truth be told, we don't know a lot about the interiors of the ice giants. The last time we got close-up data of those two worlds was three decades ago, whenSince then, Jupiter and Saturn have played host to multiple orbiting probes, yet our views of Uranus and Neptune have been limited to telescope observations.
And it's through that combination of mathematical modeling and laboratory experiments that we realized Uranus and Neptune might have so-called diamond rain.The idea of diamond rain was first proposed before the Voyager 2 mission which launched in 1977. The reasoning was pretty simple: We know what Uranus and, and we know that stuff gets hotter and denser the deeper into a planet you go.
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