Uranus Smells Like Rotten Eggs – IOTW Report

Uranus Smells Like Rotten Eggs

I don’t know how I could have missed this article-

Space.com: There’s a lot of really smelly stuff wafting around Uranus.

The clouds in Uranus’ upper atmosphere are composed largely of hydrogen sulfide, the molecule that makes rotten eggs so stinky, a new study suggests.

“If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus’ clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions,” study lead author Patrick Irwin, of Oxford University in England, said in a statement.

But that wayward pioneer would have bigger problems, he added: “Suffocation and exposure in the negative 200 degrees Celsius [minus 328 degrees Fahrenheit] atmosphere, made of mostly hydrogen, helium, and methane, would take its toll long before the smell.”  more here

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