Jupiter (The Grand Tour #9)
Jupiter (The Grand Tour #9)
Author: Ben Bova
Desc: Jupiter is a boundless ocean ten times wider than the entire planet Earth. Heated from below by the planet's seething core it is the widest deepest most fearsome ocean in the solar system. Idealistic young American scientist Grant Archer joins a clandestine expedition to this awesome new world. But Grant does not share the ideals of the scientists he accompanies: he has been planted on their expedition by the New Morality a religious group that wants to ferret out what the 'godless humanists' have discovered. His mission: to reassure the new religious leaders of Earth that Jupiter holds no intelligent life. But unknown to the New Morality Grant though the son of a minister is both a believer and a man who sees no reason why science and faith can not co-exist. He has come to the vast planet-girdling ocean of Jupiter with an open mind and he is about to tell his masters something that may shatter their conviction.