The Science-based Science Fiction of Europa Prime

Europa Prime is a science-based science fiction game. It takes players somewhere they

can’t otherwise go, across the solar system and into the future, where science and science fiction blend together.

• Europa is real. It’s an icy moon of Jupiter.

• The station is fictional. There is no base station on Europa.

• Evidence suggests Europa has a vast, subsurface ocean of liquid water, but this isn’t know for sure.

• Minos, the main alien lifeforms within the game, don’t exist. Earth is the only

• place in the entire universe known to have life.

• Europa is a strong candidate for the possibility of life beyond Earth. NASA’s

• Europa Clipper mission its way there right now to investigate whether or not it

• actually has the conditions necessary to support like.

• Etc.

  
  

Want to learn more? To help those who are interested in exploring what’s science and

what’s science fiction within Europa Prime, TERC created a ThingLink interactive.

In small, bite-size bits, it shares information about the science concepts in the game, as

well as some of the sci-fi elements that are speculations based on what is known and/or

what evidence suggests about Europa, astrobiology (the study of life in the universe),

and more.

Join us in discovering the future. The fiction may change, but the science is real… it’s

just getting started.

You can try this interactive experience for yourself here

PS it is an education focused ThingLink Interactive