A 70 degree shift on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa was the last event to fracture its surface
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A 70 degree shift on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa was the last event to fracture its surface

Europa’s outer icy shell has completely reoriented itself in one of the last geologic events recorded on its young surface. Europa’s poles are not where they used to be. Cracks in the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon indicate its shell of ice rotated by 70 degrees sometime in the last several million years. In addition to supporting prior evidence for the existence of a subsurface ocean, it also means that the geologic history of Europa’s surface must be reexamined.

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