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Using data gathered by NASA's Juno Jupiter orbiter, scientists estimate that Europa's ice shell is about 18 miles thick — ...

Data from NASA's Juno mission has provided new insights into the thickness and subsurface structure of the icy shell encasing ...

How thick is the ice shell on Jupiter’s moon, Europa? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

Jupiter's fourth-largest moon is a main character in our search for other life-friendly places in our solar system.

Thanks to Juno MWR data and a recent study, scientists have determined the depth of the icy shell encasing Europa.

New microwave measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal Europa’s ice shell may stretch nearly 29 km (18 miles) deep, ...

"By understanding the sizes and shapes of craters on Europa and reproducing their formation with numerical simulations, we’re able to infer information about how thick its ice shell is." When you ...

New findings published in Nature Astronomy suggest the latter. By analyzing microwave data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft during ...

Astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting oceanography from space. Cornell ...