Europa: How thick is the water ice layer? Liquid or solid?

Other evidence, including the cycloidal ridges and also including melt-throughs and ridges, may suggest a very thin ice shell only a few kilometers thick and floating on a liquid water layer.

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(11 km by 16 km)

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