Thwaites is putting about 50 billion tons of ice into the water a year.

斯韦茨冰川每年向水中放入大约500亿吨冰。

All this makes Thwaites kind of a big deal for scientists seeking to understand our changing climate.

所有这些都使得思韦特冰川对那些想要理解气候变化的科学家来说是非常重要的一件事情。

Thwaites " looks different from other ice shelves, " Wahlin said.

瓦林说，斯韦茨冰川" 看起来与其他冰架不同" 。

Their goal is to study the area where the large, but melting, Thwaites glacier faces the Amundsen Sea.

他们的目标是研究巨大但正在融化的斯韦茨冰川面向阿蒙森海的区域。

No one has stepped foot before on the key ice-water meeting point at Thwaites.

在此之前，还没有人踏上过斯韦茨冰川的关键冰水交汇点。

It includes the very large Thwaites ice shelf that is melting so fast it is called " the Doomsday Glacier."

它包括非常大的思韦茨冰架，它融化得如此之快，被称为“末日冰川”。

The success of Icefin opens up a whole new way for researchers to measure and monitor rapidly-changing glaciers like Thwaites.

Icefin 的成功为研究人员测量和监测像思韦特这样快速变化的冰川开辟了一种全新的方式。

And the point that Thwaites was exploring was our alienation from the economic processes that produce consumer goods for us.

思韦茨探讨的重点是我们与为我们生产消费品的经济过程的疏远。

Because of its importance, the United States and the United Kingdom launched a $50 million mission to study Thwaites, the widest glacier in the world.

由于它的重要性，美国和英国启动了一项耗资5000万美元的任务，以研究世界上最宽的冰川——斯韦茨冰川。

University of Colorado ice scientist Ted Scambos said from the McMurdo land station last month that the conditions driving Thwaites' ice loss are increasing.

科罗拉多大学冰川科学家泰德·斯坎博斯上个月在麦克默多陆地站表示，导致斯韦茨冰川融化的条件正在增加。

The area, which is where the Thwaites glacier is located, is sometimes called " the place in the world that's the hardest to get to" .

这个地区就是斯韦茨冰川所在的地方，有时被称为" 世界上最难到达的地方" 。

Wahlin said " Thwaites is the main reason I would say that we have so large an uncertainty in the projections of future sea level rise" .

" 我们对未来海平面上升的预测存在如此大的不确定性，我想说主要原因在思韦茨冰川身上。"

In particular, this team of scientists, part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, wanted to get a look underneath the glacier, at an area called the grounding zone.

国际思韦特冰川合作组织的科学家团队，想看看冰川下面，一个叫做接地带的区域是什么情况。

Wahlin's team will use two robot ships, her own large one called Ran which she used in 2019, and Boaty McBoatface, the drone that could go further under the area of Thwaites.

瓦林的团队将使用两艘机器人船，一艘是她自己的大船，名为Ran，她在2019年使用过；另一艘是Boaty McBoatface，它可以在斯韦茨冰川区域下面走得更远。