An Icy World (IMAGE)

Brown University

An Icy World

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Previous studies had hinted that something like subduction may have been happening on Jupiter's moon, Europa. A new study provides geophysical evidence that it could indeed be happening on the moon's icy shell.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute

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