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Water Fact File for Europa |
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The Bottom Line: |
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A frozen ocean? |
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Findings from Dr Kotwicki's 1991 Paper: |
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Europa is smooth like a billiard ball: no craters are visible, presumably smoothed out by a 100 km deep ocean underlying the solid ice crust. |
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Latest Findings about Water on Europa: |
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Pictured Below: How Europa may look beneath the ice surface. |
Above: The Jovian Moon Europa.
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Please contact our Webmaster with questions or comments. © 1991-2005 Dr Vincent Kotwicki.
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