Diamond rain? Super-ionic water? These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies beneath the thick, bluish, hydrogen-and-helium atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, our solar system's unique, but superficially bland, ice giants.

Diamond rain? Super-ionic water? These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies beneath the thick, bluish, hydrogen-and-helium atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, our solar system’s unique, but superficially bland, ice giants.

Source:

Phase separation of planetary ices explains nondipolar magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2403981121#executive-summary-abstract

  • @faltryka
    1•24 days ago

    I had to immediately look at the bottom most layer first to make sure I wasn’t walking into a joke.