Europa’s entire icy shell shifted 70-degrees a few million years ago

Europa’s entire icy shell shifted 70-degrees a few million years ago
By Paul M. Sutter

The mysterious world Europa, the ice-covered second moon of Jupiter, sports deep scars that cut across its face. An international team of investigators studied high-resolution maps of that surface to reveal a pattern: something shook Europa sometime within the past few million years, causing the entire shell to shift by 70 degrees. Europa has long …

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September 1, 2020 at 06:16AM
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