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How erosive is the vacuum of space meant to be?
by robertlagrant 3y ago
How erosive is the vacuum of space meant to be?
- timschmidt 3y agoYou mean that place that smells of burnt metal and is full of hard radiation? Surface of Mars is definitely more hospitable.
- iancmceachern 3y agoNot less erosive though.
- BuildTheRobots 3y ago> Overall, astronauts often compare the smell of space to "hot metal, burnt meat, burnt cakes, spent gunpowder and welding of metal," according to Steve Pearce, a biochemist and CEO of Omega Ingredients, who combed through astronaut interviews to help him craft a NASA-commissioned scent: https://www.livescience.com/space/what-does-space-smell-like https://www.livescience.com/space/what-does-space-smell-like Guess I'm one of today's 10,000.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoThey made a perfume of it. https://eaudespace.com/ https://eaudespace.com/
- alfiopuglisi 3y agoWouldn't it be the smell of space suits and space stations, rather than space itself? I don't think astronauts have tried to breath the few particles in the vacuum.
- timschmidt 3y agoThe smell is apparent when one doffs their suit after a spacewalk.