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  • Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa Has a Really Weird Cold Spot

    09/07/2018 2:11:28 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 18 replies
    Space.com ^ | September 7, 2018 12:19pm ET | Meghan Bartels,
    Just because Jupiter's moon Europa is coated in ice doesn't mean all that ice is the same temperature. And now, scientists have mapped the hot and cold spots on the moon's surface using data gathered from Earth, with accuracy down to 125 miles (200 kilometers). While most of the temperature variations they measured can be explained by sunlight's influence on the ice, there's one unusually cold spot that is stumping the scientists behind the new research. That spot, which falls on the moon's northern hemisphere, stood out in images taken at different times of the day, which surprised the scientists....