Surface Generated Cracks on Europa

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Mar 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005lpi....36.2368l&link_type=abstract

36th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 14-18, 2005, in League City, Texas, abstract no.2368

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Conditions are derived for surface cracks to penetrate through Europa's
ice shell based on fracture mechanics. It is shown that the cracks may
reach the bottom of the shell under diurnal tensile stress if the shell
is several kilometers thick.

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