The geyser that reached the sky was like a charge team, shouting and clamoring, and erupting from under the ice shell as if he had sex.

The majestic water dragon is gathering momentum. In the eyes of scientists, the surging momentum is full of trembling horror and unfathomable mystery.

Everyone subconsciously took a few steps back.

Over time, the momentum of the fountain began to decline significantly.

"Affected by Jupiter's tidal gravity, the water pressure under the ice shell began to drop, and the cracks began to gradually close."

"The fountain lasted for a total of 7.5 hours, and the volume of seawater ejected from the underground is expected to reach more than 800,000 cubic meters."

“Most fountains turn into ice crystals during their fall.”

Fortunately, Europa's atmosphere is thin, and the ice crystals will not drift with the wind, and basically fall back to the surroundings of the fountain crack. By the end of the fountain, a vast area around the trench has raised an ice and snow hill.

The fountain was completely calmed down, and everyone continued to work carefully. Everyone began to quickly collect the ice and snow erupted from the ocean world inside Europa.

In fact, scientists cannot accurately locate the location of the fountain explosion. They can only scan the ice structure layer to find relatively weak or subtle cracks, and then wait for the rabbit to wait.

However, this time everyone successfully captured the fountain outbreak and collected research samples.

Theoretically, if Europa's ocean is like the Earth, then these seawater samples will inevitably contain a large number of microorganisms. The actual situation is that Europa's oceans are definitely not comparable to those of the Earth's oceans, and the marine environment conditions here are much more harsh than those of the Earth's ocean environment.

Therefore, the scientists involved in this operation did not find alien fish and shrimp washed up on the surface in the fountain as expected.

A large number of ice and snow samples were collected and transported to the spacecraft's laboratory.

There are more than 500 samples of underground marine water bodies that need to be tested.

The first step is to re-melt the collected ice and snow samples into seawater. The second step is to carefully detect and observe these water samples from the underground ocean.

The scientists were both excited and nervous.

Is there a dead darkness or a hustle and bustle under the ice?

This is a puzzle that has plagued mankind for more than a century.

Yes, or not.

The final result must be one of the two.

If Europa's scientific exploration team discovered that there was nothing in the underground ocean, this means that the birth of life was not as easy as imagined. If it were not for the fire of life sprinkled by the Creator's host, there would not be a situation like the world today, and any inch of livable land could burst out with vitality.

On the contrary, if Europa's scientific exploration finally discovers vitality in the ocean under the ice shell, it can be proved that the birth of life is common in the universe, and on countless other livable planets, all kinds of lives will surely bloom with all kinds of lives. Human beings are not lonely in this universe!

After half a day, all collected samples were analyzed.

The results were revealed, with mixed joys and sorrows, and hope was intertwined in disappointment.

"No life of any kind was found!"

"Bacteria, virus, no microorganism"

"The only thing we are grateful for is that we have discovered the existence of a variety of organic macromolecules."

Scientists began to start a new round of discussions based on current discoveries.

"The fountain exploded due to the pressure of tidal gravity, and in the end only the upper sea water rushed out of the ice shell. The temperature of the upper sea level is definitely relatively low, and it is very likely to be attacked by high-intensity radiation. Therefore, today's results can only prove that there is no life on the top of the ocean world under the ice of Europa."

"It's true. You have to know that under the ice shell, it's tens or hundreds of kilometers deep, so we still have a great chance to discover alien life forms."

"So, according to the plan, we should choose a relatively thin area in the area where the salt lake is located below the ice, break the ice and enter the ocean under the ice, and conduct in-depth exploration."

Scientists quickly identified the target area for ice breaking detection by scanning the ice structure.

This area forms an irregular area due to the collision between each ice plate. In this area, the thickness of the ice layer does not exceed one kilometer, or even only a few hundred meters (a high-risk area for geyser eruption), which greatly reduces the difficulty of the scientific exploration team in breaking the ice.

At the same time, there is also a huge saltwater lake below the ice layer, which is roughly three times that of the Caspian Sea, the largest lake on the earth.

“It would be great if we could manage to get sediment samples from the lakes under the glacier.”

"According to the current situation, if life really exists on Europa, then these lives may be similar to organisms that survive under the hot water conditions of the deep sea on Earth."

"And, from the environmental conditions, Europa's life form can only be some low-level marine creatures, and it is unlikely that advanced creatures or smart creatures will appear. At least it will be impossible for us to see them in the short term."

Scientists speculate that Europa's submarine environment has great similarity to the "hydrothermal outlet" at the bottom of the Earth's ocean. As we all know, there are many life forms at the hydrothermal outlet of the Earth's seabed. Therefore, people still insist that "the probability of Europa having basic living bodies should be very high."

If Europa's life was born long enough, it would be possible that life forms similar to fish on Earth could evolve.

After calculation, in the theoretical model, Europa ocean can provide at least 3 million tons of fish-like organisms with survival needs. However, based on the current situation alone, there is no hope for discovering alien fish and shrimp.

The Europa Science Exploration Team has prepared two ice-breaking plans for this operation:

1. Use a mini version similar to a mining robot to drill into the ice layer and enter the ocean to detect. The specific action is to send at least 100 robot teams, each of which will be composed of two robots (automated and completely sterilized). One robot drills through the ice layer in front to create a channel to the ocean, and the other robot can enter the depths of the ocean along the channel. The scientific instruments it carries can be circumvented and found out microorganisms. However, this solution has a risk. The robot may be washed into the sky by a high-pressure and high-speed fountain when it digs through the ice layer.

2. Fire "ice-through bombs" into the ice layer, using powerful kinetic energy to break through the thick ice layer. At the moment the ice layer breaks through, a large number of inspection robots wrapped in protective shells are fired to the cracks.
Chapter completed!