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Europa Induced Magnetic Field

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1998

Margaret Kivelson22 October 1998

Europa · Science / Astronomy

Galileo magnetic data support the presence of an electrically conducting layer, consistent with a salty subsurface ocean.

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Margaret Kivelson

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