Using data from NASA's Messenger spacecraft, researchers have determined that a 10-mile-thick layer of diamonds may lie beneath Mercury's crust. This finding could explain several long-standing ...
may be harbouring a layer of diamond beneath its crust that is kilometres thick. The theory formed thanks to NASA’s MESSENGER ...
Both neutron stars and certain moons such as Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus have thin crusts over deep oceans, while Mercury has a thin crust over a large metallic core.