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This[1] article mentions a lab at ASU - might be of interest (I didn't explore it). I wonder if there's a market for a "scratch and sniff" astronomy children's
by mncharity 6y ago
This[1] article mentions a lab at ASU - might be of interest (I didn't explore it).
I wonder if there's a market for a "scratch and sniff" astronomy children's book?
There's also a smell on ISS EVA suits upon repressurization. Last I heard, the mechanism was unclear.
There was a "smell of space" perfume kickstarter[2], and then "of moon", but IIRC both were working from descriptions rather than chemistry.
I saw someone ask, what would a Falcon 9 first stage smell/taste like after it landed. It reminded me that most science education content is very sensorially impoverished. Elsewhere, someone reported their half-century-ago geology professor, as emphasizing that you should bring all your senses to bear, and taste your rocks.
Material sensory properties ("smooth vs rough", etc) are taught in Kindergarten. But the descriptive ontologies are ad hoc, so I've wondered what leverage might be obtained by swapping in something more principled from industry. So what about about smell? Either in the spirit of material properties, or more "artist's eye for color", or music appreciation?
[1] https://astronomy.com/news/2018/07/outer-space-smells https://astronomy.com/news/2018/07/outer-space-smells [2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eaudespace/what-does-outer-space-smell-like-nasa-designed-fragrance https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eaudespace/what-does-ou...