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...evidence comes from a Europa flyby in which Galileo barnstormed the little moon at an altitude of just a few hundred miles. Soaring over a region known as the Conamara Chaos, the spacecraft photographed an area in which the moon's thin skin of ice appears to have buckled as a result of turbulent water moving just beneath the frozen crust. The crumpling gave the ice a washboard topography made up of a series of parallel cliffs, each the size of Mount Rushmore. Elsewhere the spacecraft spotted bright crustal fractures crisscrossing older, darker ones, suggesting that the ice is being...
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