gif: Sinking melt water simulation (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

gif: Sinking melt water simulation

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A computer-generated simulation of the post-impact melt chamber of Manannan Crater, an impact crater on Europa. The simulation shows the melt water sinking to the ocean within several hundred years after impact. Carnahan et al.

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Carnahan et al.

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