The Planet Uranus

In 1981, Marvin Ross, a scientist from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, published a paper in the journal Nature suggesting the center of Uranus and Neptune might turn out to be a girl’s best friend. To understand why, we first need to look at the make-up of these planets. Uranus and Neptune are comprised of three layers, namely, a rocky center, a liquid layer (water, methane, and ammonia), and a low-calorie outer layer consisting of hydrogen and helium. Ross suggested that the... Read Full Story

Uranus seen through the space shuttle voyager 2 The said planets contain a high amounts of methane, which the UC Berkeley researchers now shown can turn into diamond at very high temperatures and pressures found inside these planets. Experiments done at the University of California, Berkeley, are the indication of future explorers of our solar system that they may find diamonds falling down through the atmospheres of Neptune and Uranus. Berkeley - October 1, 1999 "Once the diamonds form... Read Full Story

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