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Life and Giant Planets Briefing

  • The surface composition of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, is water ice
  • Surface temperature is -260 F (-162 C)
  • This ice layer may be 4 miles (7 km) thick
  • Magnetic fluctuations suggest conducting liquid flows
  • High tide is 30 meters (or 100 feet)
  • On Ganymede, another of Jupiter's moons, the salty ocean may lie beneath an ice layer that is 150 kilometers (90 miles) thick
    Credit: NASA

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