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Cordero's Europa Report: The Physics Of Europa
Many aspects of science were involved with the making of Europa Report. This movie included aspects of real science to make in more accurate even though the story of Europa One is completely science fiction. It included ways to deal with gravity on the ship, ways to get the ship to Europa, and a drill that digs through the ice of Europa. Gravity is a huge issue when it comes to space flight. Europa Report dealt with it in two ways. Cordero decided to show the astronauts in this movie actually working out to fight against the medical problems living in zero gravity can cause (Cordero, 16:20). This exercise will help prevent muscle and bone deterioration during their flight as well as during any and every time that the astronauts experience …show more content…
For Europa, that is under the icy surface. In order for the astronauts to examine under the surface, they need a drill that will go through the ice and create a hole for a probe. The drill that they use looks to be a thermal drill with the underwater probe attached (Cordero, 27:21). The drill melts the ice upon impact signifying that a thermal drill is used instead of a mechanical drill or a laser. These thermal drills can cause tremors in the ice as seen in the movie just like any other drill because the surface of the moon is being split. The drilling along with the consistent pull from Jupiter and its other moons can cause serious tremors that can affect the drilling process which is why they used a thermal drill. This drill is generally not created to go the 2800 meters that the drill went in the movie. They can only go as long as the communication cable created to tether the probe to the ship is (Hsu, 2010). Since the distance to the ocean floor of Europa is unknown, it leaves this length up to the creators of the probe. The probe can’t be that larger or heavy because it needs to travel to Europa in order to be useful. This means that the probe cannot go any deeper than 11 kilometers, the distance of one on Earth which is too large for space travel (Hsu,

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