![]() ![]() The Jovian moon became an interest to researchers as a place that potentially could harbor life after observations from Earth-bound telescopes and space probes found evidence of an ocean 10 to 15 miles beneath the icy surface, reports Ian Sample for the Guardian. “If the mechanism we see in Greenland is how these things happen on Europa, it suggests there’s water everywhere.”įirst spotted by Galileo Galilei in 1610, Europa is 2,000 miles wide and slightly smaller than Earth’s moon. “Because it’s closer to the surface, where you get interesting chemicals from space, other moons, and the volcanoes of Io, there’s a possibility that life has a shot if there are pockets of water in the shell,” says study author Dustin Schroeder, a geophysics expert at Stanford University in a statement. The evidence suggests that the ridges on Europa’s icy shell may form above pockets of water that may be habitable for life, a statement explains. Researchers analyzed two ridges on Greenland's ice sheet with ice-penetrating radar, and found that the ridges look like those on the far away Jovian moon, per the Independent’s Jon Kelvey. An icy shell that is miles thick covers the possible ocean, but new evidence suggests that the ice may also have shallow pockets of liquid water, reports Michelle Star for Science Alert.Ī recent study of Earth's Greenland ice sheet published this month in Nature Communications suggests that water may close to the surface of Jupiter's moon. While the voyage is painstakingly staged, Europa Report's final destination is just silly.One of Jupiter’s many moons, Europa has captivated astronomers and astrobiologists for decades after evidence was collected in the 1970s suggesting that it had a subsurface ocean. Yet all the verisimilitude doesn't make the payoff any more believable. The production design is solid, as are the effects, especially the simulation of weightlessness. The tone is earnest, the performances capable and the scientific lingo plausible. Viewers who prefer the more dignified varieties of science fiction may be inclined to accept the film nonetheless. (Curiously, Bear McCreary's rippling score features violins, not synthesizers.) The crackling noise, fractured images and data dropouts make Europa Report resemble a Daft Punk music video more than a testament to a deep-space disaster. Rosa, who maintains a chic pixie cut through more than a year of extraterrestrial flight, must have concealed a hairdresser somewhere on board.Īnother obstacle to taking the movie seriously is that its look and feel are a little too fashionably distressed. Only Andrei, who grows a beard, becomes at all scruffy. (No talk, however, of sex.)Ĭertain visual details are less convincing. The astronauts discuss homesickness, the lousiness of the food, and the fact that they're drinking each other's distilled urine. Even the reclaimed video's supposed highlights are mostly everyday, while the dialogue is generally credible. With a few brief exceptions, Philip Gelatt's script is intentionally short on excitement. Everyone speaks English, although Katya (Karolina Wydra) and Andrei ( The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's Michael Nyqvist) sometimes chat privately in Russian. Sent to investigate are a diverse lot, including Daniel (Christian Camargo), James ( District 9's Sharlto Copley) and Rosa ( 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days' Anamaria Marinca). Made in Brooklyn by Ecuador-born director Sebastian Cordero, the film was inspired by recent theories about the possible existence of liquid beneath the frozen surface of Europa, one of the Jovian moons. ![]() But you can guess the breakthrough won't be good news for William and his multinational team. The chronology is jumbled, the account offers more foreshadowing than explication, and the big scientific discovery is hidden as long as possible. Rather than making a documentary from the surviving video - most of it necessarily shot from a fixed-position perspective, rather than with the now-traditional shaky cam - the editors shape it into a thriller. En route to Europa, something goes haywire, leaving technicians back on Earth to decipher the fates of five crew members and their commander, using archived surveillance video. ![]()
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