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Experiments led by Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Ujjwal Raut have produced evidence to support spectral data recently collected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) showing that the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa is constantly changing. The JWST shows that ice on Europa is developing at different rates in different places, such as Tara Regio, where crystalline ice (lighter colors) is found on the surface as well as below the surface.

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