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Reply to: Penitente formation is unlikely on Europa

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replying to K. P. Hand et al. Nature Geoscience https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0496-2 (2019)

Hand and colleagues1 critique aspects of the analysis within our work2, and criticize our reference to the emergent metre-scale blade-like structures that we inferred to be ‘penitentes’.

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  1. School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    Daniel E. J. Hobley

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Jeffrey M. Moore & Orkan M. Umurhan

  3. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Alan D. Howard

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Hobley, D.E.J., Moore, J.M., Howard, A.D. et al. Reply to: Penitente formation is unlikely on Europa. Nat. Geosci. 13, 20–21 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0497-1

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