The problem connected with formation of lenses and chaotic bands on Europa’s ice surface are considered. Some assumptions
concerning their formation due to temperature stresses in the ice cover of Jupiter’s moon and action of gravitational tidal
forces are put forward.
PACS 46.25.Hf - 96.30.ld
Original Russian Text © E.N. Chumachenko, R.R. Nazirov, 2008, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2008, vol. 46, No.
6, pp. 530–536.