Synopsis Europa Report
Dr. Unger (Embeth Davidtz), CEO of Europa Ventures tells the story of Europa One mission. Six astronauts embark upon a privately funded mission to Europa, one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter, to try to find potential sources of life.[4]
Willam Xu (Daniel Wu) and Rosa Dasque (Anamaria Marinca) successfully launch the ship into space with four other members: Daniel Luxembourg (Christian Camargo), chief science officer, Katya Petrovna (Karolina Wydra), a marine biology science officer, James Corrigan (Sharlto Copley), junior engineer, and Andrei Blok (Michael Nyqvist), chief engineer. During the flight, the members interact with cameras inside the craft.
After a year of mission time, a solar storm hits the ship knocking out communication with mission control on Earth. Andrei and James perform extra-vehicular activity (EVA) to repair the system outside. While opening the access panel to fix the damaged communication circuitry, an accident punctures Andrei's glove. James pulls the ailing Andrei, dangerously leaking oxygen, back to the airlock. Just before entering, it is noticed that James has hydrazine splashed on his suit from the accident. It is decided that the suit cannot be decontaminated and if James enters the ship, the air will become irreversibly toxic. Against Andrei's protests, James pushes him into the ship. The airlock closes, saving Andrei, but maneuver causes James to float away, lost forever.
The ship finally reaches Europa's orbit and prepares to land on the moon. During the landing the spacecraft encounters a thermal vent that throws the ship off course from the original target zone. The crew immediately begins drilling through the ice, as their new landing zone has much thicker ice. Several quakes occur due to shifting ice surface. Andrei, who is sleep-deprived and eliciting concern in the rest of the crew appears to witness a light outside the ship but is unable to record it or otherwise convince the crew.
The crew probes the ocean beneath the ice, but the probe receives a heavy dose of radiation from the depths of the ocean. It is then struck by an unknown object and contact is lost. Katya is devastated by this and wants to do a dangerous surface walk to the target zone to get more samples. Katya dons a spacesuit, goes outside and walks several yards to the target zone and begins collecting samples, which Daniel remotely analyzes and discovers traces of a non-terrestrial single-celled organism. With communication disrupted by the increasing radiation, Katya sees a light in the distance and decides to investigate it. Rosa loses sight of Katya as she move further away. As Katya approaches the light glowing through the ice, the ground below her breaks and the crew watches her on remote cameras in horror as she plunges downwards through the water.
Daniel suspects that a complex organism may have reacted to Katya's helmet light. The crew agree to leave so that they could bring their existing findings back to Earth. After launching the engines experience a malfunction and the ship crashes back to the surface. William unbuckles from his seat during the descent to blow the water shielding to reduce impact speed. The ship hits the surface, killing William and damaging the ship, now leaking oxygen and losing heat. Ironically the crash site is in the original landing zone. To make the necessary repairs for the next escape attempt, Andrei and Daniel don spacesuits and hesitantly step outside. As soon as Daniel steps through the external airlock, a radiation signature is detected and Daniel suddenly vanishes from sight. Unable to patch the fuel line, Andrei suggests that a repair of the communication array is possible, if he cannibalizes parts from the ship's life support system. Knowing what Andrei is asking, Rosa agrees and records a short video of herself giving a current situation summary. As Andrei begins work on the communication panel, Rosa notices a light source behind him. Andrei completes the repair as the strange lights close in on him and the entire ship. Rosa successfully re-establishes communication with Earth and all the collected images and data that have been saved over the blackout months (as well as real time data) are sent, just as the ground cracks and the ship begins to sink. Knowing the end is near, Rosa opens the airlock to let the water in. As the water rises to the cockpit Rosa finally discovers the source of the strange light: a tentacled life-form that bears a striking resemblance to a bioluminescent comb jelly (ctenophore) commonly found in our oceans on Earth. The data are eventually de-classified, with experts commenting on the ground-breaking implications of the discovery of extra-terrestrial terrestrial life and honoring the sacrifices of the expedition members.
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