Europa’s Lost Expedition - A Scientific Novel PDF
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This classically styled, chilling murder mystery about an expedition under the ice of Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa, is backed up by the latest scientific findings on this icy satellite.
The science fiction premise explores real possibilities of exploring other bodies in the Solar System, including probing their possible astrobiology.
Now that the most recent world war has concluded on Earth, human explorers are returning to exploration, carrying out a full-court press to journey into the alien abyss using tele-operated biorobotics and human-tended submersibles and specially modified diving suits.
Nine scientists head out to Jupiter’s icy ocean-moon.
But at Europa’s most remote outpost, one by one, the team members who shared the cruise out begin to die under suspicious circumstances.
All was well until the team started to explore below the surface and dive down into the icy forbidding depths of Europa’s subsurface ocean.
The deaths have all the symptoms of some sort of plague like nothing ever seen before, and this despite Europa’s seemingly sterile environment....leading to the inevitable question.
If the illness is not naturally found on planet - then who brought it there and most importantly why did they and what can they possibly gain from infecting a team of defenceless scientists....
Besides providing thrills, a science section covers the very latest in undersea robotics and hermetically sealed carbon fibre and steel dive suits, discussing the assets future explorers may have available for exploring subsurface oceans on moons including Europa, Enceladus and Titan.The book explores the most recent results in Europa's research findings, from safe radiation levels for human habitation, landing sites, subsurface ocean currents and makeup, possible plate tectonics, geyser activity on the surface, volcanic activity on the ocean floor, and Europa’s bizarre exosphere.
The book also covers extremophiles and the various possible biomes on — and inside of — Europa.
This book is Volume XIX of the ongoing 'Science And Fiction' Book Series created and produced by the publisher of this book as a way to encourage people to become involved in all fields of Scientific endeavour through the use of Fiction and to encourage people to research topics that they may find intriguing when reading Science Fiction Authors. The series was initially designed for high school and university students as a teaching resource but due to their popularity are now being read by people of all ages all across the world.
This book includes 10 Photographic illustrations.
The Author is an award winning American artist who specialises in creating space and planetary Artworks of both an factual and Science Fiction type.
He is also an equally respected science writer with 26 books to date to his name, ranging from children’s devotionals to titles that include 'Drifting on Alien Winds Exploring the Skies and Weather of Other Worlds' and 'Alien Seas Oceans in Space'.
He has been commissioned to create Artworks for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, while dozens of book and magazine covers have also used his creations nationally and internationally.
The Author is a Fellow and founding member of the International Association for the Astronomical Arts.
One of his proudest achievements is the knowledge that one of his paintings now rests at the north pole of Mars – in digital form – on board the now deactivated Phoenix lander.
He is recipient of the Lucien Rudaux Award for lifetime achievement in the astronomical arts, and the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Sciences Jonathan Eberhart Award for the year’s best planetary science feature article.
This is his second novel in this series and he lives and works in North America.
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