Can Hydrothermal Plumes Melt Through Europa's Ice Shell?

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Mar 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003lpi....34.1430c&link_type=abstract

34th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 17-21, 2003, League City, Texas, abstract no.1430

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Using an improved model to assess melting of Europa's ice shell, we find
that total melt-through never occurs for reasonable values of sub-ice
heat flux. Tens to hundreds of meters of ice always remain, making it
difficult to form chaos terrain.

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