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Subject: Is water pressure on Europa greater or lesser than Earth?

Date: Sun May 27 20:14:18 2007
Posted by Chris
Grade level: grad (non-science) School: No school entered.
City: Woodbridge State/Province: NJ Country: USA
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 1180322058.As
Message:

Hi there. Thanks for reading this e-mail. I've been wondering something lately: 

Europa apparently has 5-10 miles of ice atop a large ocean of liquid water. Say
that a probe managed to dig through all the ice and accessed an ocean, then
dropped a pressure measuring device. Now, upon reaching the water and sinking,
would the device record a water pressure roughly equivalent to water pressure
5-10 miles under water or would the pressure be about as much as if you dropped
the device into the water from the surface? Thanks for your time. 


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