Caleb Scharf, an astrobiologist at Columbia University who was not part of the research, said he was amazed.

凯勒·沙佛，哥伦比亚大学的一位天体生物学家，没有参加这项研究，他说他对此感到惊奇。

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。

In the next 15 to 25 years, there are likely to be two generations of space missions to analyze exoplanets in greater detail, said astrobiologist Jean Schneider at the Paris Observatory at Meudon.

Meudon的巴黎天文台的天文学家JeanSchneider称，在接下来的15至25年内，很可能会有两个世代的更详细地分析太阳系外行星的太空计划。

As the Russian astrobiologist Andrei Finkelstein put it at a recent SETI press conference, 「the genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms.」

就像俄罗斯天体生物学家安德烈·芬克尔·斯坦在最近的SETI新闻发布会上所说，「生命起源如同原子形成一样是顺理成章。」

NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay said: 」If these signs do turn out to be a sign of life, it would be doubly exciting because it would represent a second form of life independent from water.

美国宇航局天体生物学家麦克凯伊说：「如果最终被证实为生命迹象，这将是双重惊喜。因为它不仅证明了外太空有生命存在，同时还意味着与地球生命迥然不同的、并非以水为生的第二种生命形式也存在。」

「The more we find in our asteroid belt objects that do have water, the more convinced we are that that was a possible process to rehydrate the earth,」 said NASA astrobiologist Mary Voytek.

「我们在我们的小行星带发现确实有水的物体越多，就越能说服我们那是一个让地球再水化的过程，」美国航空航天局的天体生物学者玛丽沃伊泰克说。

Run by Paul Davies, an astrobiologist at Arizona State University, the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup operates under the aegis of the International Academy of Astronautics, according to MSNBC.

这个组织由亚利桑那州立大学的天体生物学家，保罗戴维斯运作。据MSNBC称，SETI Post-DetectionTaskgroup （检测搜寻地外文明的任务小组）是在国际航空学院的主持下运行的。