This is afalse - colour picture of Europa , Jupiter ’s fourth - big moon , a H2O - covered behemoth with the bland Earth’s surface in the Solar System . And yet , I could still swear I ’m looking at the end upshot of a football going through a stain - chicken feed window .
The figure of speech , taken by NASA ’s Galileo ballistic capsule , shows a realm charmingly have a go at it as the Conamara Chaos . The criss - cross chunks of ice are probably triggered by asteroid impacts , which moves the ice rink around , before it refreezes in the haphazard pattern you could see above . Other theory put the pandemonium regions down to global sea currents , which do thawing and upwelling at the surface .
Europa is one of the more promising candidates for bump lifespan in our solar organization , thanks to the fluid nature of the moon , and previous traces of minerals found on the control surface . NASA is planning a mission to poke around under the surface , quite possibly using a scary - looking roboteel , power by magnetic fields .
effigy reference : NASA / JPL / University of Arizona
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