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Why is Jupiter's moon Europa solid?

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It is close to -400F on the surface of Europa which literally turns everything rock solid.

but, below the ice the temperatures rises the deeper into an environment warm enough

to allow life to sprout up soooo, Europa is only solid down to 30 to 100 miles or so

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