Sentence Correction

With surface temperatures estimated at minus 230 degrees Fahrenheit, Jupiter's moon Europa has long been considered far too cold to support life, and with 60 square miles of water thought to be frozen from top to bottom

A. Europa has long been considered far too cold to support life, and with
B. Europa has long been considered far too cold to support life, its
C. Europa has long been considered as far too cold to support life and has
D. Europa, long considered as far too cold to support life, and its
E. Europa, long considered to be far too cold to support life, and to have

Source: GMAT Prep

[spoiler]OA: B[/spoiler]

[spoiler]My problem with approaching this question is that I was trying to understand the structure of this sentence, and I couldn't really make sense of it. But turns out the reason why the sentence doesn't seem to make a lot of sense is because there's really only one clause and the rest are modifiers.

Does anyone have any tip to recognize such modifier structure, or should I just kind of take the approach that if the sentence structure doesn't make sense, analyze it as modifiers. [/spoiler]

Edited one of the typos.