Ep. 675: Exotic Forms of Ice
Astronomy Cast
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Europa's Colors
Researchers have been struggling to try and understand how Europa has the colors that we see. It's a gas body with a lot of gravity, compressing inwards, it's higher temperatures here. Here you have high pressures creating the ice because of pressure. And then the temperature is above what we're used to thinking of for freezing. So here again we're looking at something that think of the molecules more as dust grains that are confined together to form ice"
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