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niktemadur
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niktemadur@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-12 |
This is what I'm visualizing: Meanwhile, the tidal bulge has rushed halfway across the hemisphere, the water is now pressing against the ice crust there. If the Jovian system's tidal forces can stretch and knead Io's mantle like silly putty, its' rocky surface rising and falling as much as 100 meters (about 300 feet) each tidal cycle... I can't even imagine how violently the water may slosh under Europa's ice crust. One final note: considering that Europa is tidally locked with Jupiter, and it is Ganymede and Callisto that can pull in other directions, how long are the tidal cycles there? The principle is like on Earth, but there are extra gears in the mechanism, so to speak, different high and low tides may vary widely between each other. |
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