- Conamara Chaos
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Coordinates: 9°42′N 87°18′E / 9.7°N 87.3°E[1]
Conamara Chaos is a region of chaotic terrain on Jupiter's moon Europa. It is named after Connemara, in Ireland.
Conamara Chaos is a landscape produced by the disruption of the icy crust of Europa. The region consists of rafts of ice that have moved around and rotated. Surrounding these plates is a lower matrix of jumbled ice blocks which may have been formed as water, slush, or warm ice rose up from below the surface. The region is cited as evidence for a subsurface ocean below Europa's icy surface.
References
- ^ Blue, Jennifer. "Conamara Chaos". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
External links
Categories:- Surface features of Jupiter's moons
- Europa
- Astrogeology stubs
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