{"id":784586,"date":"2024-06-24T11:43:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T16:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=784586"},"modified":"2024-06-24T11:43:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T16:43:57","slug":"mercury-may-have-a-layer-of-diamond-beneath-its-grey-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=784586","title":{"rendered":"Mercury may have a layer of diamond beneath its grey surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Does Mercury have a sparkling secret?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Carnegie Institution of Washington<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A thick layer of diamonds may be hidden hundreds of kilometres below the surface of Mercury, according to an experiment recreating early conditions on the solar system\u2019s smallest planet.<\/p>\n<p>We already know that Mercury is rich in carbon, the element that makes up diamonds, thanks to observations by NASA\u2019s Messenger orbiter, which revealed a surface covered in graphite. \u00a0This carbon is likely to be spread throughout the planet\u2019s interior, where its exact form will depend on the temperature and pressure at each location.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2436656-mercury-may-have-a-layer-of-diamond-beneath-its-grey-surface\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Mercury have a sparkling secret? NASA\/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Carnegie Institution of Washington A thick layer of diamonds may be hidden hundreds of kilometres below the surface of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":784587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/784587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}