Europa: What do we know?

There is some spectral -- compositional -- mapping of the surface that has been done also. Here, the blue areas show relatively clean water ice and the reddish areas show the presence of non-water materials (maybe sulfuric acid would likely be a surficial effect, maybe salts from a subsurface ocean).

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