OCT 18 — New research suggests solid diamonds are scattered deep inside both Jupiter and Saturn. Planetary scientists suggest that intense temperature and pressure on those planets may be able to convert atmospheric methane gas directly into diamonds, which rain down into their interiors. The diamonds are formed when methane gas gets struck by lightning, turning the gas into the building blocks of diamonds, soot, which then transforms into graphite. After that, the process of diamond formation involves very high temperatures ranging up to 7,000 degrees Celsius. The solid diamonds would hang out in the outer regions of the planet. — Reuters