Saturday, December 19, 2009

Ice jam on the Colorado River...


shown above is evocative of the icy surface of Europa, one of the many moons of Jupiter, as shown below.
(Click each image to enlarge.) Note, in both cases, the larger blocks of ice that have separated and rotated, then frozen within a slushy matrix.

Excellent technical paper: Evidence for a subsurface ocean on Europa (.pdf file).

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