Earth's New Layer
The simplified layers of the Earth only have the inner and outer core, mantle and crust. However, today, there is a layer of molten or pliable rock that is found to be quite stiff in Earth's mantle. What's interesting is that they used diamond anvils to apply massive amounts of pressures to rocks to simulate conditions deep in the Earth to find this layer. Read more here @ popular science.
Raining Diamonds
Imagine a meteorite containing more diamonds than all of the deposits known on Earth just landing your country. Apparently, that's what happened. These diamonds are also claimed to be harder than Earth diamonds due to the immense amount of pressure and temperatures at the moment of impact which was a crater 100 km wide. Can you please picture that for a moment? Driving in a crater for an hour at 100km/hr. That's how big the explosion was...35 million years ago. Check out more from the Huffington post.
Checking out the Rings
Saturn's 6th largest moon, Enceladus, the source of Saturn's outermost ring now tops the list as most probable world to contain life. Sean Hsu, from Boulder University in Colorado lead a team to study the rings and discovered that the silica point to WARM waters. It's hard to imagine that something warm could exist so far out, but the small uniformity of the silicate materials serves as evidence. Their work has been published in Nature and can be further read about here on Popular Mechanics.
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