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From your link: A liquid below its standard freezing point will crystallize in the presence of a seed crystal or nucleus around which a crystal structure can form creating a solid.

Europa's ocean is surrounded by a vast sheet of actual ice. You can't keep such an ocean at supercooled state.


It's not likely that an entire large planetary body will maintain a state out of equilibrium for geological periods of time. Supercooling is unstable.


So, I'm assuming you don't have any basis for your assertion above? Because this is nothing to do with Europa.




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