Ocean World: Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa (IMAGE)

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Ocean World: Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa

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Europa's surface is a shell of ice covering a global ocean and displaying amazing features. Long, linear cracks and ridges crisscross the surface, broken by regions of disrupted terrain where the surface ice crust has cracked and refrozen into new patterns. The colors seen in this image from the Galileo mission in the late 1990s are approximately what the human eye would see.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

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