美国国家航空航天局(NASA)的一台探测仪正在一片漆黑中静静地等待着。当有沸腾的波涛从地面裂缝中喷薄而出的时候,探测仪的传感器就将显示液体中的分子成份,并检测出碳同位素变化的情况,进而分析生物体的样本。NASA将这样的一台探测仪安装在如此遥远的地方,远离空气和阳光,是为了发现科学家们没有见过的生物体。上述一幕乍听起来好像是在其它星球上发生的故事,而这正是NASA在地球海底所开 A probe from NASA is waiting quietly in darkness. When a boiling wave gushes out of the ground crack, the detector’s sensor displays the molecular composition of the liquid and detects changes in the carbon isotope, which can then be used to analyze a sample of the organism. NASA installed such a detector so far away from the air and sunlight, in order to discover organisms that scientists have not seen. The above scene may sound like a story that happened on other planets, and that’s exactly what NASA was