Icy Moonquakes: Surface Shaking Could Trigger Landslides on Moons of Jupiter and Saturn

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Icy Moonquakes: Surface Shaking Could Trigger Landslides on Moons of Jupiter and Saturn

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Icy Moonquakes: Surface Shaking Could Trigger Landslides

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A new NASA study offers an explanation of how quakes could be the source of the mysteriously smooth terrain on moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.

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