00:04Space can be a pretty wild place, and while planets like Jupiter might have constant red
00:08eye storms that have been raging for as long as mankind is known, its moons like Europa are just
00:13as nuts. For years scientists thought the Europa was a massive ball of ice, now however they
00:17believe it has more of an ice shell. Underneath there is a massive highly salinated ocean,
00:22likely 40 to 100 miles deep, meaning at only a quarter of the size it has around twice the
00:27water of Earth. But now, according to a new study, below that ice there are likely snowstorms that
00:31form underwater, with snow that falls upside down. Scientists took a look at Antarctica's ice sheets
00:37to understand how Europa's ice shell may have formed. Underneath ice in Antarctica, what's called
00:41frazzled ice often forms, or salty coagulated ice that builds up underneath the surface,
00:46but it's often much less salty than the sea ice around it, meaning Europa's ice crust likely is
00:50as well. Experts believe that Europa's ice sheet is 10 to 15 miles thick, meaning much more near
00:56fresh water sits right at the surface than we could have ever expected.
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