<h5>Mercury’s hidden diamonds!</h5><p>Mercury is the smallest planet, but it might have something big underneath—diamonds! Scientists used data from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft to figure this out.</p><p>Imagine a layer of shiny diamonds under the ground, 18 kilometres thick! Scientists think these diamonds might have formed when Mercury was born billions of years ago.</p><p>Mercury has a giant metal core and is still full of mysteries. Who knows what else is hidden there?</p><figure class="image"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/newsahoot.appspot.com/Mercury_f69797a8bd.jpg" alt="Mercury.jpg"><figcaption>An image of Mercury taken by MESSENGER. Photo by NASA.</figcaption></figure><h5>How did researchers figure this out?</h5><p>When Mercury was formed a long time ago, it had a crust of graphite floating over a magma ocean. Scientists recreated this environment using a cool machine called an anvil press.</p><p>They mixed things in a graphite container and subjected it to extremely high pressure and heat, just like inside Mercury billions of years ago. Guess what? The graphite turned into diamonds!</p><p>This discovery suggests there could be a layer of diamonds hiding beneath Mercury’s surface.</p><h5>About NASA’s MESSENGER.</h5><p>NASA’s MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) was a super cool spaceship that went to Mercury! Its job was to learn all about Mercury’s rocks, what it’s made of, etc.</p><p>MESSENGER launched in 2004 and sent lots of amazing information back to Earth. After many years of exploring, it finally ran out of fuel and crashed into Mercury in 2015.</p>

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