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The gravity on Mars is about 1/3 the gravity on earth. That means this 300-pound suit will still weigh a little over 100 pounds on Mars. That's heavy if the astronauts want to explore Mars's rocky cliffs and valleys.
火星上的重力只有地球的三分之一。那意味著一套300磅的太空服在火星上只重100英鎊多一點。對于宇航員來說，如果想要探索火星的巖石峭壁和山谷，300磅是非常重的。
"Mars is a fantastic environment. The Martian geography makes Mount Everest and the Grand Canyon look very small. So we really need a suit that we can lope and bend and climb and we want it to be a very light system as well. And so that's why we came up with our bio-suit invention."
火星上的環境很奇妙。火星的地形令珠穆朗瑪峰和大峽谷顯得很渺小。因此我們確實需要一種可以讓人大步走，能彎曲能攀爬的太空服，同時也要非常輕便。因此我們想到發明生物太空服。
The bio-suit, a light weight, full mobility spacesuit designed for human exploration on Mars.
Bio-suit是一種重量輕，移動性全面的太空服，專門為人類在火星上探險而設計。
"Spacesuit has to provide pressure to keep someone alive in space."
“為了讓人們在太空上活著，太空服一定要提供壓力。”
The atmospheric pressure on Mars is about 1/100 of that on earth. Walking around in that kind of pressure would be fatal.
火星上的大氣壓力只有地球的100分之1。在這種壓力下行走會有致命的危險。
"Due to kind of this vacillate since your fluid is in your body would come out of a solution and so you would essentially choke and die. It wouldn't be very pretty."
“由于這種波動，你體內的血液可能會倒流，因此你會窒息而死。這樣就不好了。”
A conventional spacesuit keeps the astronaut in a hard shell that is gas-pressurized. For the astronaut it's like being in a balloon. The breakthrough with the bio-suit is that it can apply the required pressure right onto your body.
傳統的太空服把宇航員包在氣體供壓的硬殼里。宇航員看起來像擠在一只氣球里。生物太空服的重大突破在于它能將壓力直接施加在你身體上。
"The bio-suit squeezes a person. We call it mechanical counter pressure that provides enough pressure to keep all the fluids and your body working.
“生物太空服會擠壓人。我們叫它“機械反壓”，它會提供足夠大壓力，讓你的血液和身體正常工作。”
As an added bonus it's a lot cooler-looking than the old spacesuits.
附加的獎勵是它比傳統的太空服看起來更酷。
"There is a very specific patterning to the suit that I guess it kind of looks like a spider man suit."
“這種生物太空服有非常具體的特點，讓我感覺跟蜘蛛俠的衣服相似。”
The lines on the suit aren't just a fashion statement; they are actually a kind of exoskeleton that keeps the suit rigid.
衣服上的線條并不是為了時尚而設計。它們實際上是一種讓衣服保持穩固的外骨骼。
That pattern doesn't move and is very much mapped to your musculature so as you can move your joints, your elbows and your knees but these lines would stay, you know very tight fitting to your muscles if you can imagine that so allowing you maximum mobility.
這種線條不能移動，這也映射了肌肉組織，正如你可以移動關節，胳膊肘和膝蓋，但肌肉線條仍然不動。如果你能想象的話，太空服緊貼著肌肉才能使你最大限度的活動。
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