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Europa’s ice thickness and subsurface structure characterized by the Juno microwave radiometer


Microwave observations of Jupiter’s moon Europa reveal subsurface properties of the ice shell covering a purported global ocean. The shell is 29 ± 10 km thick, with fractures or pores a few centimetres across that extend hundreds of metres deep.

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