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English: "The left-hand side of the figure shows a cutaway view of Europa’s interior. From this image it is evident that despite the surficial appearance, Europa is not truly an icy moon. Rather, it is a rocky body covered in ice. The ice shell and underlying ocean form a thin (∼100 km thick) veneer of volatiles overlying a rocky mantle and metallic core. On this global scale, the key physical process that occur are the tidal dissipation in the lower ice shell and mantle, zonal and meridional flows in the ocean, and the induced magnetic field caused by the body’s passage through Jupiter’s variable magnetic field (shown in the background). Locally, most of the important features and processes occur in the ice shell and ocean, shown in the inset. Here, the ice shell is shown not as homogeneous, but highly variable. The cold brittle ice near the surface lies on top of warmer, ductile material below that is heated unevenly by tides. This may drive subsolidus convection in the ice shell resulting in upwelling ocean ice diapers, formation and re-freezing of melt lenses, and diurnal stresses. These processes manifest at the surface in the form of cycloids, double ridges, and chaos terrains"
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Source https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-023-00990-y/figures/1
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by David Hinkle (JPL)

in Roberts, J.H., McKinnon, W.B., Elder, C.M. et al. Exploring the Interior of Europa with the Europa Clipper. Space Sci Rev 219, 46 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-023-00990-y

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Europa's ice shell processes and tidal heating

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25 August 2023

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