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Space has a smell
Published: 04 November, 2009, 13:56
Edited: 22 November, 2009, 12:41
And it's not a fantasy - space smells the same for all of us. Click to enlarge When we arrived at the ISS and docked, the guys from the station were still inspecting the hatches. When we had finished the job on our side and had opened the hatch, and I immediately sensed the smell. And Jeff [Williams] said to me at once: "This is the smell of the space!" It lasted for several minutes...
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milkshaken,
November 22, 2009, 07:39
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Another possibility is that it has something to do with solar wind or some other kind of radiation in space which generates charged particles on the surfaces of silicate materials. Moisture kills them soon but you can smell them for a short while. Breaking quarz in stone makes the same kind of stuff.
the reason for my speculation is that Astronauts on Moon brought lunar dust on their suits back from the lunar walk into LEM and they reported also this strange smell "like burnt gunpowder" that soon disappeared.
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