By Jeremy Robinson
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When proof of microscopic existence on Europa--Jupiter's 6th moon--is came across, a group of astronauts and scientists embark on a venture to find its resource. Led via oceanographer and biologist, Kathy Connelly, the staff is charged with the duty of melting via miles of ice to the hidden ocean underneath, the place the hunt for alien microorganisms starts. yet a startling discovery awaits them at the floor of Europa--life.
Vast fields of purple, plant-like organisms fill the cracks crisscrossing the moon's floor, surviving on meals welling up from the waters under. inspired by means of the invention of existence at the floor, Connelly and her team turn on the Thermal Exploratory approach and soften in the course of the ice towards a global that doesn't are looking to be came upon, towards an intelligence that would do something to ensure they by no means leave.
BENEATH takes all the motion, thrills, mind's eye and unusual creatures that Jeremy Robinson is understood for and places them within the such a lot severe setting possible: the skin, and sub-ice ocean of a moon 400 million miles clear of Earth.
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