Europa Report Page #2

Now the thing

about zero gravity is that

it makes our bones

and muscles really weak.

This is why we spend

as much time as possible

in these living modules.

Yeah, okay. Just pass it up.

I got it.

Okay. And there's

the lovely Katya.

Now these are some

of the science tools

that we're using to test

for life on Europe.

And your dad has to fix them

if any of them break.

When you're done

playing tourist,

you can come over here

and help me.

If you're not afraid

to chip a nail.

Now... whoa...

this is the cockpit.

Mission control...

...Sync.

Copy, Rosa. We have sync.

And Rosa, our

pilot, used to fly jets

before she started

flying us around.

And what's she doing? She's

setting up the camera system

which monitors everything

that happens on the ship.

Smile for Jamie, Rosa.

And now... last thing

I want to show you...

have a look at this.

The view.

Kind of ironic, really.

So little space in here

and so much space out there.

Whoa.

As the ship passed the moon,

it had already gone farther

than any human being

had ever traveled before.

Think about that.

Across all of human history,

that moment was the farthest

anyone had ever gone.

But they still had millions

upon millions of Miles to go.

Our craft was heading

for a moon of Jupiter

known as Europe.

This mission is riding

on the shoulders

of many great men and women.

And so if we have

any legacy at all,

I would hope

that it would be

that we would inspire

those who come after us

to keep exploring,

to keep pushing

the boundaries,

to keep looking

for the answers

to those

really tough questions...

who are we?

Why are we here?

Where do we come from?

And... are we alone?

For a very long time,

Europe has seemed to be

just a solid sphere of ice.

But even just looking

at its surface,

there are clues,

you know?

There might be water

underneath the ice.

And then

in the fall of 2011,

scientists realized...

they released data

showing the presence

of sub-surface lakes...

of liquid!

And... wow!

Wherever we have found water...

we have found life.

But what

came next was, um...

Even more startling.

NASA discovered

heat signatures

under an area known as

the conamara chaos.

Well, they teased

the idea that...

that simple

mono-cellular life

in our solar system might

not just be possible,

it might be probable.

I wanna go to Europe

and go ice fishing.

Cut through the ice,

lower a submersible,

look around,

see what's there.

See what swims up to the

camera lens and licks it.

If life exists on Europe,

it will be

the single most profound

discovery

in human history.

Dasque to mission control.

Over.

We read you, Rosa. Over.

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