Jupiter Project

The Jovian Astronautical-Biological Orbital Laboratory circles Jupiter and its moons - a metal shell bathed in lethal radiation, held in tenuous place by the gravity of the massive gas giant like a fragile glass ornament in a monstrous fist. For seventeen-year-old Matt Bohles and his friends, "the Can" is home. Life onboard the aging space station is cramped, spartan, and dangerous. Its mission--to monitor incoming signals and transmissions in search of alien life--has so far proven fruitless. It is the only world Matt has ever known. But now, as the threshold of adulthood - with its onset of new questions, confusions and feelings - Matt Bohles faces an impending crisis that threatens everything he knows and is. For unless he can prove himself an invaluable member of the scientific team - and quickly - he will be exiled to a filthy, perilous and unfamiliar hell called Earth.