A5 5 Jupiter is a girl’s best friend

Abstract

 The pressure within Jupiter’s layers is sufficient to create diamonds, the process in which carbon combines to produce a diamond would occur in the layer of Jupiter called the molecular hydrogen layer. The distance travelled by the carbon atoms from the water clouds to form a diamond is found to be 2850 km. This depth is situated in the molecular hydrogen level. The mass of diamond that could be formed in the northern hemisphere of Jupiter before melting was found to be 7.32×10¹⁴ kg. If this amount of diamonds were sold on Earth it would approximately cost £1.10 × 10²².