Europa gravity is just 0.134 g, but the crew walks and acts as if it's 1g during the landed mission.
After landing, the crew comments that the temperature is "holding at absolute zero," which is zero Kelvin (0K). The Europa's temperature actually spans ~50K to '125K.
Any radio they could have made from spare parts on board the ship would have been sufficient for transmitting mission status to Earth. Space probes using 20 watt transmitters can be picked up from 30 times farther away.
During launch, the crew capsule separation occurs immediately after the launch vehicle reaches supersonic speeds. In reality, a ULA Atlas 5 rocket would reach Mach 1 far earlier in the launch profile (roughly a minute). The payload separation would have then occurred much later, in addition to other inaccuracies in the launch cadence.
This information is based on the profile of Juno's mission to Jupiter launched on an Atlas 5 in 2011. The footage in Europa Report is taken from this launch and the mission profiles would have been similar.
This information is based on the profile of Juno's mission to Jupiter launched on an Atlas 5 in 2011. The footage in Europa Report is taken from this launch and the mission profiles would have been similar.
The probe shows shimmering daylight, even though Europa is five times as far removed from the sun as Earth, and in the movie the ice sheet is at least 2800m thick, both of which combined should result in darkness at that depth.
After the first accident - reported in the first few minutes of the film - the crew have to decide if they will 'go on'. Although prohibitive due to the high amount of fuel used to do an abortive burn and return to earth rather then continuing on to use Jupiter's gravity for a return, this would certainly be discussed as an option to return home as quickly as possible. This is also a discussion of whether or not to continue the mission.
Part of the spaceship is rotating while the remainder remains stationary. This contradicts the law of conservation of angular momentum. The only explanation would be that a much more massive hidden wheel was revolving in the opposite direction, but that would enormously complicate the ship's design. The simplest explanation is that the makers of this 'science-based' film did not understand basic physics.
Actually it is possible to have part of the ship not rotate. All you have to do is impart rotation to the whole of the ship with side thrusters, say 10 rpm. Then spin one part relative to the other. For example, one half at 20 rpm and the other equal half at 0 rpm.
Actually it is possible to have part of the ship not rotate. All you have to do is impart rotation to the whole of the ship with side thrusters, say 10 rpm. Then spin one part relative to the other. For example, one half at 20 rpm and the other equal half at 0 rpm.
At the end of the movie the computer screen is titled "Katye spacewalk", but the screen is displaying Adobe Flash source code for colorpicker controls (import fl.events.colorpickerevent) in the three other windows where you'd expect the spaceship logfiles.
Katya's surname is Petrovna. But in fact "Petrovna" is Russian patronymic name and means only that her father is Pyotr. Patronymic does not identify the person. Correct surname would be Petrova.
At 19m50s a ground crew, mission StarCraft (don't know what else to call him) engineer, was looking in the wrong end of a transit.
The surname of the Russian engineer is Blok, which is not Russian, but a surname of a Russian poet "Alexander Blok" (of foreign origin), unless of course the flight engineer is related to the poet.
They lose communication in the first few minutes of the film. But an ordinary torch using Morse Code could establish one-way communication back to Earth, being visible to a good telescope. Yet we are told there was no contact.
Also a fairly simple radio receiver could pick up a signal broadcast from Earth, so some sort of communication should be possible.
Also a fairly simple radio receiver could pick up a signal broadcast from Earth, so some sort of communication should be possible.