• Question: What do you think space smells like ?

    Asked by anon-191714 to Kathryn, Graeme, Chris, Anne, Agnes, Adam on 8 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Kathryn

      Kathryn answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      I have no idea, I would say metallic but I really don’t know

      Tim Peake does

      http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/what-space-smells-tim-peake

    • Photo: Anne Green

      Anne Green answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      I’d guess that completely empty space smells of nothing. Smells are caused by particular molecules, and the space inbetween the stars and planets is almost completely empty. But if we went there to smell it we’d bring molecules with us and we’d smell those.

    • Photo: Agnes Wojtusiak

      Agnes Wojtusiak answered on 9 Nov 2018:

      Probably of whatever you smell like inside your space-suit, when you’re out in space 😉
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      Although now that I’m reading what Tim Peake said, it seems more interesting than that!!

    • Photo: Graeme Poole

      Graeme Poole answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      Apparently space actually smells slightly metallic

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