Re: Europa's ice thickness

[Thomas Green]

sorry for the confusion.  12 miles is the ice thickness of the crust.

I should've asked, "If 12 miles is the minimum depth to reach the ocean, would this pose a serious engineering challenge for a submersible?"
 

"Reeve, Jack W." wrote:

I'm confused.  Does the 12 miles refer to ice thickness, ice and water,
water, or what?

Best regards,

Jack

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Thomas Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
                Sent:   Thursday 30 May 2002 09:45
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                Subject:        Europa's ice thickness

                I read that in last week's Nature, Paul Schenk of the Lunar
& Planetary
                Institute estimates Europa's crust to be at least 12 miles
deep.  He calculated
                this on impact crater shapes.

                If 12 miles is the minimum depth of the ocean, would this
pose a serious
                engineering challenge for a submersible?

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