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Old 19-April-2005, 01:18 AM
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Teasing Out a Tiny Magnetic Field

Despite the higher-than-expected altitude, the Cassini magnetometer team still has high hopes for this flyby.
This is an interesting search. After finding a magnetic field on Europa, researchers concluded that there must be a salt water ocean under the skin of the moon, because Europa is 'too light' to have enough iron as magna to cause the observed magnetic moment.

The last time I went looking for a submerged saltwater ocean was when I was looking for the lost ten tribes of Isreal and Atlantis.

Bettcha Europa is magnetic because it has an Iron, possibly molten core.
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