He has told that the high carbon content of Mercury made him realize that perhaps there is something special inside the planet. of study 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 Earth’s. American space agency NASA’s Messenger spacecraft has also detected dark spots on the surface of Mercury, which were identified as a type of carbon.
Scientists believe that the planet Mercury probably formed from the cooling of a hot lava ocean. It is the same on other planets too, but the lava oceans present in Mercury would have been rich in silicate and carbon. Over time, 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 exist in it. A 2019 study revealed 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 estimated, due to which such conditions were created that the carbon crystallized in the hero.
To learn more about Mercury, Belgian and Chinese researchers conducted experiments on Earth. He pressurized some chemical mixture at very high pressure. Scientists also took the help of computer models. Scientist Lynn claims that this computer simulation has provided important information about the interior parts of the planet Mercury. Scientists think that if a layer of diamond is present inside the planet Mercury, then it could be a 15 kilometer thick layer. Even if there were diamonds inside Mercury, they would not be extracted. Because the temperature there is very high and the diamonds are about 485 kilometers below the surface of Mercury.