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Flow of an alien ocean

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Liquid water may lurk beneath the frozen surfaces of Jupiter's moon Europa and other icy worlds. Extending ocean science beyond Earth, planetary oceanographers are linking Europa's ocean dynamics to its enigmatic surface geology.

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Figure 1: Ocean-driven heat transport beneath Europa's ice.

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  1. Jason Goodman is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wheaton College, 26 East Main Street, Norton, Massachusetts, USA,

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Goodman, J. Flow of an alien ocean. Nature Geosci 7, 8–9 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2034

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