几十年来,科学家们一直在推测木卫二可能是除地球之外,太阳系中唯一一个有大量液态水存在的地方。因为木卫二的表面照片与地球海洋上的冰的照片相似,冰壳上布满了各种陨石撞击留下的坑坑洼洼,不少科学家推测,在木卫二的冰壳之下或许有着太阳系中最大的液态水海洋,海洋下面可能存在着有单细胞生命。而这一“生命可能”的理论正是电影《欧罗巴报告》的核心。Europa, Jupiter's moon is known to have potential to support life. Hence a manned mission is sent to Europa to search for data proving existence of life there. "Europa report" shows the difficult choices and sacrifices the crew has to make to fulfill their objective of sending valuable data to Earth for research.