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On Monday, researchers confirmed news that delighted astronomers, 9-year-olds, and everyone in between: The seventh planet from the sun has an atmosphere full of concentrated hydrogen sulfide— that same unpleasant rotten-eggs smell humans emit when they fart.
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“If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus’ clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions,” team leader Patrick Irwin said in a statement to Space.com, “[But] suffocation, and exposure…would take its toll long before the smell.”
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NASA planetary scientist Glenn Orton told Business Insider that researchers are already working on a proposal for a new Uranus probe, which would help determine the birthdates of surrounding planets. It’s just as well; The noxious gases of Uranus could kill a man.
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First they confirm Uranus smells like farts. Now they want to build a Uranus probe. My 11-year-old self is running this team, apparently.
On Monday, researchers confirmed news that delighted astronomers, 9-year-olds, and everyone in between: The seventh planet from the sun has an atmosphere full of concentrated hydrogen sulfide— that same unpleasant rotten-eggs smell humans emit when they fart.
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“If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus’ clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions,” team leader Patrick Irwin said in a statement to Space.com, “[But] suffocation, and exposure…would take its toll long before the smell.”
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NASA planetary scientist Glenn Orton told Business Insider that researchers are already working on a proposal for a new Uranus probe, which would help determine the birthdates of surrounding planets. It’s just as well; The noxious gases of Uranus could kill a man.
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First they confirm Uranus smells like farts. Now they want to build a Uranus probe. My 11-year-old self is running this team, apparently.
