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Today I learned that saturn, supermassive gas giant of our solar system, has an atmosphere mostly comprised of methane that, like Jupiter, organises itself into massive endless storms that generate lightning. 1/2

The lightning ignites the methane creating flakes of soot (carbon) that rain down towards the planets non solid centre and, under the incredible pressure created by the dense atmosphere and incredible gravity… get compressed into diamonds It rains diamonds on Saturn… 2/2