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AsIfIKnowWhatImDoin t1_ist0bb1 wrote

Reply to comment by RundownPear in The Europa Clipper mission may be as exciting as a manned mars mission and it’s only two years away by Wide-Escape-5618

You just keep moving those goalposts, dontcha'? So anyway....warm water!

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RundownPear t1_ist6478 wrote

Being "closer to the core" doesn't mean a warmer ocean. Deeper oceans are colder. Europa's ocean, assuming it does exist since it's still just a theory based on the moons low electrical conductivity and observed ice crust, would theoretically be warmed by tidal flexing caused by its orbit around Jupiter.

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AsIfIKnowWhatImDoin t1_ist86qw wrote

I never said 'warm ocean'--that's something you made up and are running with.

I said 'warm water' and that is very much a possibility given the depth.

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RundownPear t1_istawim wrote

Ok, still applies to warm water. Warm water being present has nothing to do with distance from the core of a planet or moon.

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