Cloudy with a chance of diamonds.

• Position: SPACE - Brief article

If you lived on Saturn or Jupiter, you might not mind a rainy day. That's because diamonds are raining down on those planets, according to new research. Analyzing temperature and atmospheric pressure data from Saturn and Jupiter, scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and elsewhere concluded that planetary lightning storms are turning methane into a carbon soot. As it's exposed to higher atmospheric pressure and temperatures, the soot solidifies into chunks of graphite and then diamond stones. The stones melt into liquid...