Conamara Chaos
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The Conamara Chaos Zone is a region of chaotic terrain on Jupiter's moon Europa. It is named after Connemara, in Ireland.
Conamara is a landscape produced by the melting of ice. The region consists of plates of ice that have moved around and rotated. Surrounding these plates is a lower region of jumbled ice blocks which may have been formed as water, slush, or warm flowing ice rose up from below the surface. The region is seen as evidence for a subsurface ocean below Europa's icy surface.
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