Liquid water may lurk beneath the frozen surfaces of Jupiter's moon Europa and other icy worlds. Extending ocean science beyond Earth, planetary oceanographers are linking Europa's ocean dynamics to its enigmatic surface geology.
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Goodman, J. Flow of an alien ocean. Nature Geosci 7, 8–9 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2034
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