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in September 2022, it captured evidence not only for pockets of briny water connected to the world's deep subsurface ocean, but also for potential scars formed by towering plumes of water vapor — and it caught that evidence on camera
The platypus is huge, spanning 37 kilometers by 67 kilometers . Because Europa's icy surface tends to smooth itself out over geologically shortspans, erasing surface features such as craters, then the Platypus must be one of the youngest features on the Jovian moon. , where plumes are a predictable and common occurrence, Europa's plumes have been somewhat spotty, leading some researchers to doubt plumes exist at all on Europa The discovery of trenches, somewhat analogous to theon Enceladus— the points of origin for the world's plumes — will provide Europa Clipper and JUICE with regions to target in their search for the plumes on Europa as well.
"True polar wander occurs if Europa's icy shell is decoupled from its rocky interior, resulting in high stress levels on the shell, which lead to predictable fracture patterns," said Candy Hansen, who is a Juno co-investigator at the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona.Juno imaged these fracture patterns in the form of steep-walled, irregularly shaped depressions between 20 kilometers and 50 kilometers in size .
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