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A 13-Year Radar Sweep Sheds Light on Europa’s Porous Ice

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Source: Gizmodo
A 13-Year Radar Sweep Sheds Light on Europa’s Porous Ice
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A 13-year radio study of Europa (2011–2024) finds its radar albedo is unusually bright and the scattering pattern matches clean, porous ice, placing new limits on how deep radar can probe below the icy crust and offering important context for upcoming missions like Europa Clipper and Juice.

Topics:sciencespace-and-spaceflight#europa#ice#note-extra-tag-not-allowed#planetary-science#radar#radio-astronomy#space-and-spaceflight
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  1. Scientists Spent 13 Years Bouncing Radar Off Europa. Here’s What They Found  Gizmodo
  2. Radar echoes from Europa reveal secrets beneath the ice  Phys.org
  3. Europa’s Ice Shell Gets Its Best Radar Portrait Yet: A 13-Year Dataset Arrives  Tech Times
  4. Jupiter’s Europa: Pinged by Radar – Penetrating Findings  Inside Outer Space
  5. Radar Observations Reveal New Clues about Europa’s Hidden Interior  Sci.News

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