The icy surface of Jupiter 's moon Europa appears to be constantly changing, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed.

This phenomena, the team explained, is heightened in so-called "chaos regions" where surface features like cracks, plains and ridges end up jumbled and ensnared together.

"We think that the surface is fairly porous and warm enough in some areas to allow the ice to recrystallize rapidly," said paper author and geologist Richard Cartwright of Johns Hopkins University in a statement.

The different rates of crystallization across the icy moon point to a complex mix of geological processes at play—and provide further evidence for Europa harboring a liquid ocean beneath its frozen surface.

Astronomers refer to what we would call ice as "water ice." Thi

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