Europa essay

Europa's gravity is only about 13 percent of Earth's, resulting in a virtually nonexistent atmosphere. Because of this, Europa, like Earth's moon, has no weather, wind or sky colors. And walking on Europa would feel similar to walking on Earth's moon. If you went for a stroll,...

Jupiter's icy moon Europa has long been thought of as a potentially friendly place for life in the solar system. But what would human explorers find if they set down their ship on the moon's icy shell?

Based on the real-life experiences of Salomon Perel, Agnieszka Holland’s wartime tour de force Europa Europa is a breathless survival story told with the verve of a comic adventure, an ironic refutation of the Nazi idea of racial purity, and a complex portrait of a young man caught up in shifting historical calamities and struggling to stay alive.

And walking on Europa would feel similar to walking on Earth's moon. If you went for a stroll, you'd probably want to visit Europa's "chaos terrain," where the normally flat ice has been fragmented into jumbled blocks. "It might look like you're in Monument Valley," Pappalardo said.