As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.
Io was the original title of Outland (1981) but at that time testing showed people read the name Io as 10, and so the name was changed.
At the beginning of the movie, Sam takes a sample looking to see if bacteria can use ammonia (NH3) as an oxygen (O2) source. Ammonia has no oxygen available to be used.
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