9°42′N 87°18′E / 9.7°N 87.3°E[1]
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Conamara Chaos is a region of chaotic terrain on Jupiter's moon Europa. It is named after Connemara (Irish: Conamara) in Ireland due to its similarly rugged landscape.[2]
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 liquid ocean below Europa's icy surface.
References
edit- ^ "Conamara Chaos". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
- ^ Pappalardo, Robert (2009). Europa. University of Arizona Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-8165-2844-8.
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