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You need an AUV, an autonomous underwater vehicle.
你需要個AUV，一個自行式水下航行器。
It needs to be one smart puppy, able to navigate and make decisions on its own in an alien ocean.
它必須很聰明，能夠自己導航在陌生的外星球的大洋里能夠自己做決定。
What Jim didn't know when he released that movie was that six months earlier NASA had funded a team I assembled to develop a prototype for the Europa AUV.
吉姆公映這部電影時并不知道六個月前NASA(美國宇航局)已撥款給我集合的一個團隊去研發木衛二自行式水下航行器的原型。
I mean, I cut through three years of engineering meetings, design and system integration, and introduced DEPTHX Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer.
我花了三年的工程會議，設計和系統整合，設計了DEPTHX-深水熱源探索儀。
And as the movie says, this is one smart puppy.
就像電影描述的，這是一個靈敏的小東西。
It's got 96 sensors, 36 onboard computers,
它有96個傳感器，36臺車攜式電腦，
100,000 lines of behavioral autonomy code,
十萬條自主行為指令，
packs more than 10 kilos of TNT in electrical onboard equivalent.
攜帶著十多公斤的炸藥。
This is the target site,
這是目的地，
the world's deepest hydrothermal spring at Cenote Zacaton in northern Mexico.
墨西哥北部薩卡通石灰巖洞的世界最深溫泉。
It's been explored to a depth of 292 meters.
有人曾經探索到292米深處。
and beyond that nobody knows anything.
再深就沒人知道是什么樣了。
This is part of DEPTHX's mission.
探索它是深水熱源探測儀的任務之一。
There are two primary targets we're doing here.
我們有兩個正在研究的主要方向。
One is, how do you do science autonomy underground?
一個是如何在地下自動地做科學實驗？
How do you take a robot and turn it into a field microbiologist?
如何將機器人變成野外工作的生物學家？
There are more stages involved here than I've got time to tell you about, but basically we drive through the space, we populate it with environmental variables-sulphide, halide, things like that.
這個有更多的步驟,可惜我沒有足夠的時間細述，但是基本上我們操縱機器人穿過這個空間，我們讓它探測環境變量-硫化物，鹵化物，這樣的東西。
We calculate gradient surfaces, and drive the bot over to a wall where there's a high probability of life.
我們計算傾斜的表面，操縱機器人爬上墻體,那里很有可能存在生命。
We move along the wall, in what's called proximity operations,
我們沿墻移動，這就是所謂的近距離操做,
looking for changes in color.
尋找顏色的變化。
If we see something that looks interesting, we pull it into a microscope.
如果我們遇到什么有趣的東西，我們把它放到顯微鏡下。
If it passes the microscopic test, we go for a collection.
如果它通過了顯微鏡測試，我們就收集樣本。
