Sentences with phrase «thin ocean crust»

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Europa, meanwhile, appears to be entirely covered by an ocean, sandwiched between a rocky core and a thin ice crust.

Since cooler mantle temperatures generally produce less magma, it's a trend that's making modern day ocean crust thinner.

Images from the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, hinted that Europa has a relatively thin crust in which fissures sometimes open up and let water escape from a subsurface ocean.

On Tuesday scientists boarded a research vessel bound for a part of the Indian Ocean where Earth's crust is thin.

Typical ocean crust is just 4 miles (6 km) thick, roughly five times thinner than the crust that lies below land - based volcanoes.

There's the familiar thin crust of continents and ocean floors; the thick mantle of hot, semisolid rock; the molten metal outer core; and the solid iron inner core.

So, the nightmare scenario would be that, if Cassini was just left to run out of fuel and careen uncontrollably around the Saturn system, there would be a small chance that it could crash into Enceladus in the future and any hitchhiking microbes on board might set up home in this ocean that lies beneath the thin crust.

It is most likely flexing of the crust, it is relatively thin at the deep ocean floor in comparison with much thicker continental shelf.

They ignore volumes of geothermal energy that move through the crust, especially under the oceans where the crust is thinner and more perforated.