Mercury could have an 11-mile underground layer of diamonds, researchers say.
From CNN: "The diamonds might have formed soon after Mercury itself coalesced into a planet about 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of dust and gas, in the crucible of a high-pressure, high-temperature environment."
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