Space Smells Of STEAK Say NASA, page 3
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reply posted on 16-11-2008 @ 05:54 PM by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by reugen
reply to post by ColoradoJens


How can you experience smells in a vacuum ?


Exactly...

The original article points out that astronaut's space suits smell like steak after they come back from a spacewalk, but that doesn't mean that space smells that way. I suspect that cosmic radiation or solar rays are causing a chemical change in the suits to make them smell that way. The suits are probably not "picking up" the odor of space.

Even if it were possibly for a human to "take a whiff" of space, there probably are not enough molecules in space for a human nose top detect ANY smell. (by the way, space is only a "near vacuum" -- not a total vacuum. There are some free-floating molecules of matter out there in open space.)
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