Metal Clouds and Raining Precious Gems

Way out in space it seems like anything is possible. Massive planets that make our sun look like an ant, matter in all forms flying around, and even planets where the clouds may be metal and the rain might be precious gems. It’s almost too hard to believe, but who knows! Join Adam as he dives into this weeks Learn English with the News.

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855 light-years from Earth, a massive gas giant orbiting a star may have metal clouds and rain made of liquid gems, according to new research. The planet, WASP-121b, was first discovered in 2015 and is similar to Jupiter.

Every 30 hours, it completes one orbit and is tidally locked, much like the moon is to Earth. That means one side of the planet is daytime while the other is night. On Earth, water evaporates and its vapor condenses into clouds, which then release rain. On WASP-121b, this cycle is more vicious.

On the dayside, temperatures range from 2,227 – 3,227 °C in the atmosphere. These blazing hot temperatures rip apart water atoms. These atoms are carried over to the nightside by winds that reach more than 17,703 km/hour. There, the molecules become water again and the process repeats.

On the nightside, things are cooler: the temperature is between 1,527 – 1,227 °C. This difference between the two sides of the planet also means it is cool enough for metal clouds made of iron and corundum, a mineral found in rubies and sapphires, to form.

Much like water vapor that gets cycled around on WASP-121b, these metal clouds may get pushed to the dayside where the metals vaporize into gasses. But before the clouds leave the nightside, they could release rain made of liquid gems.