Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
You may have heard that diamonds are a girl`s best friend or are forever, but have you ever heard of these shiny pieces of bling falling from the sky as rain? Diamonds are also well known for being super hard, so much so that they are attached to the tips of drills to cut through the toughest materials. Where, then, would you find liquid diamonds? That`s right, liquid! One of my favourite pastimes is to read about and listen to podcasts about the planets. Why is this subject so fascinating to me? Apart from the fantastic photographs that spacecraft have sent back from these objects, some of the ways they work are unlike anything we will ever see on Earth. In the solar system, temperatures and pressures never occur naturally on our planet. This means that substances we are familiar with do strange things elsewhere in the solar system. For example, ice far away from the sun`s influence gets so cold that it behaves like rock. Methane, the gas used for cooking and heating, can be a li...