I somewhere read that Europa, the moon of Jupiter have more water than on earth. Please explain about it how it is possible because earth's 2/3rd surface is water and Europa is just 1/4th of whole earth.

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the water present there is in the form of ice.we know that water takes less space when it is in solid form that is ice.so this is how more water is present in europa than earth

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