Chapter 34
It never got entirely dark on this part of Europa. Even with Jupiter between Europa and the sun, Jupiter itself still cast a bright light on the landscape around them. Nick couldn’t imagine any place he would rather be. The rover sat in the middle of the slight depression in the landscape, a deformed pocket in the ice. Vibeke had informed him that there was a pocket lake beneath them in the ice that trapped an upwelling of warmer water, like a pocket of magma back on Earth. With quick gestures, she had shown him how to change the holographic displays on his control panel to show the sonar images of the lake.
Nick studied the colorful readout that showed a body of water is large as Lake Washington. “What we wouldn’t have given for this sort of technology!” He shook his head. “I
