Diamond reserves found on Mercury 15km thick layer 485km below but impossible to extract

One of the most precious things on our earth is diamond. A study has revealed that it may also be present on other planets of the solar system. According to a report, a recent study has indicated that a thick layer of diamonds may exist hundreds of miles below the surface of Mercury. Live Science Report According to, Yanhao Lin, a scientist at the Center for High-Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research in Beijing and co-author of the study, has provided important information.

He has said that the high carbon content of Mercury made him realize that perhaps there is something special inside the planet. result Published in the journal Nature Communications.

Mercury is the first planet in our solar system to have a magnetic field. However, its magnetic field is weaker than that of the Earth. The US space agency NASA’s Messenger spacecraft has also detected dark spots on Mercury’s surface, which were identified as a type of carbon.

Scientists believe that Mercury was probably formed by the cooling of a hot lava ocean. This is the case with other planets as well, but the lava oceans on Mercury must have been rich in silicate and carbon. Over time, the metals solidified inside it and the central core of the planet was formed.

For many years, scientists believed that the temperature and pressure in Mercury’s mantle were just right for carbon to form. A 2019 study found that Mercury’s mantle may be 50 kilometers (80 miles) deeper than previously thought. That is, the temperature and pressure there were also higher than previously thought, creating conditions that could allow carbon to crystallize into hero.

To know more about Mercury, Belgian and Chinese researchers conducted an experiment on Earth. They pressed some chemical mixtures at very high pressure. Scientists also took the help of computer models. Scientist Lin claims that these computer simulations have provided important information about the inner parts of Mercury. Scientists believe that if there is a layer of diamonds inside Mercury, it could be a 15 kilometer thick layer. Even if there are diamonds inside Mercury, they cannot be extracted. Because the temperature there is very high and the diamonds are about 485 kilometers below the surface of Mercury.