However, scientists must come up with a way to do that using the mission's existing scientific instruments, said NASA astrobiologist and Phoenix co-investigator Chris McKay.

NASA的太空生物学家兼‘凤凰’合作投资者克里斯。迈凯说，然而科学家们必须想出一个方法能通过利用任务中现有的科学仪器来做到。

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An started working on this program while a graduate student at Ohio State University, Columbus, under the leadership of Ohio State astronomer Kris Sellgren, the co-investigator on the project.

由本项目的合作研究者、俄亥俄州天文学家克里斯。Sellgren带领的一个由哥伦布市俄亥俄州立大学的研究生团队开始了这项研究工作。

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But the actual streams themselves may have persisted on the surface for long periods, said Curiosity science co-investigator Bill Dietrich of the University of California, Berkeley.

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"It's correlating the increasing intensity in different bands that provides really important clues about the structure of the source, " Prof Madejski - a co-investigator on the NuStar X-ray telescope, told BBC News.

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On the academic side, the ISTC-EC co-principal investigator is CMU Associate Professor Priya Narasimhan.

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