A thick layer of diamonds could also be hidden a whole lot of kilometres beneath the floor of Mercury, in accordance with an experiment recreating early situations on the photo voltaic system’s smallest planet.

We already know that Mercury is wealthy in carbon, the aspect that makes up diamonds, due to observations by NASA’s Messenger orbiter, which revealed a floor lined in graphite.  This carbon is prone to be unfold all through the planet’s inside, the place its actual kind will rely on the temperature and stress at every location.…