Conamara Chaos

Coordinates: 9°42′N 87°18′E / 9.7°N 87.3°E / 9.7; 87.3^[1]

"Ice rafts" in Conamara Chaos

Enhanced-color regional view of Conamara Chaos, showing its location south of the intersection of two large "tripleband" lineae. White areas are ejecta rays from the large (26-km diameter) crater Pwyll 1000 km to the south

Conamara Chaos is a region of chaotic terrain on Jupiter's moon Europa. It is named after Connemara (Irish: Conamara) in Ireland due to its similarly rugged landscape.^[2]

Conamara Chaos is a landscape produced by the disruption of the icy crust of Europa. The region consists of rafts of ice that have moved around and rotated. Surrounding these plates is a lower matrix of jumbled ice blocks which may have been formed as water, slush, or warm ice rose up from below the surface. The region is cited as evidence for a liquid ocean below Europa's icy surface.

References

↑ Blue, Jennifer. "Conamara Chaos". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
↑ Pappalardo, Robert (2009). Europa. University of Arizona Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-8165-2844-8.

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Europa

Geology

Chaotic terrain	Conamara Chaos

Craters	Pwyll

Lists	List of lineae on Europa List of geological features on Europa List of craters on Europa

Exploration

Past	Pioneer 10 Pioneer 11 Voyager 1 Voyager 2 Galileo Cassini–Huygens New Horizons

Planned	Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (launches 2022) Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission (launches 2024)

Cancelled/ Concepts	Jupiter Europa Orbiter Europa Orbiter Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Jovian Europa Orbiter Europa Lander (rerouted to Ganymede as Laplace-P)

Proposed manned	Colonization of Europa

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