Wow. Amazing stuff. A whole history of cracks laid on top of other cracks. Leaves you wondering how old these are. Clearly it's a new surface comared to something like the moon, etc. But how many millions of years is "new"?
Looks like maybe that old schoolyard rhyme about Jupiter and Mars was wrong. There's no actual candy bars on Mars and Jupiter looks a lot more together upstairs than we previously assumed...
Googled it:
Europa, a moon of Jupiter, has lines because of tidal heating and the gravitational pull of Jupiter. These lines are cracks and ridges in the moon's icy surface, called lineae.
Which can indícate líquid water under the surface. The reason it’s liquid is because Jupiters gravitational pull ‘squishes’ Europa much like how our moon creates high tides. The squishing creates friction which creates heat which melts ice. Water can be found throughout the solar system.
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Europa, a moon of Jupiter, has lines because of tidal heating and the gravitational pull of Jupiter. These lines are cracks and ridges in the moon's icy surface, called lineae.