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Small Impacts Churn Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa

Small impact craters on Jupiter’s moon Europa could eventually offer scientists a glimpse of possible habitability below the body’s frozen surface, a new paper on which Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Rebecca Ghent is an author.  Europa has a global ocean covered by an icy surface that is covered with small impacts from the past ...

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Mars' moon Europa.