{"id":243994,"date":"2026-09-13T05:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T10:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/scientists-melted-a-diamond-and-cracked-a-secret-of-ice-giants"},"modified":"2026-09-13T05:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T10:03:11","slug":"scientists-melted-a-diamond-and-cracked-a-secret-of-ice-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/scientists-melted-a-diamond-and-cracked-a-secret-of-ice-giants","title":{"rendered":"Scientists melted a diamond and cracked a secret of ice giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-melted-a-diamond-and-cracked-a-secret-of-ice-giants2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ask a planetary scientist, and they will tell you that diamonds aren\u2019t really all that uncommon. In fact, there are billions of tons of them hiding away in the deep interiors of planets in our solar system and beyond. The most enthusiastic will tell you about diamond rain\u2014where a planet\u2019s temperature and pressure are so great that diamond literally melts and forms a liquid, dropping toward the planet\u2019s core.<\/p>\n<p>The friction and heat these diamond raindrops generate are among the primary drivers of Neptune\u2019s excess energy, which it then radiates back out into space. For the first time, the LLNL paper provides solid experimental data on the precise pressures and temperatures needed for such an awe-inspiring event to occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask a planetary scientist, and they will tell you that diamonds aren\u2019t really all that uncommon. In fact, there are billions of tons of them hiding away in the deep interiors of planets in our solar system and beyond. The most enthusiastic will tell you about diamond rain\u2014where a planet\u2019s temperature and pressure are so [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}