Our Smelly Solar System

Sight, sound, and yes, taste, have all helped humanity better understand space, but what about smells? Scientists think we have a pretty good idea of what some places smell like, and decoding astronomical aromas can be a good way of working out what places are made of. Hosted by: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Marwan Hassoun, Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0432-1 https://gizmodo.com/stinky-molecules-confirm-uranus-smells-like-farts-1825467106 https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/explainer-the-chemistry-of-farts/2500168.article https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp126-c1.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0457-5 https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-experiments-recreate-aromatic-flavors-of-titan/ https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/nasa-recreates-odor-of-saturns-moon-titan https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103514001651 https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Benzene https://www.thoughtco.com/aroma-compounds-4142268 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/in-depth/ https://phys.org/news/2020-10-recipe-saturn-moon-titan-ingredients.html https://www.livescience.com/mudball-meteorite-smells-like-brussels-sprouts.html https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/do-meteorites-smell https://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/life-components.html Images: https://archive.org/details/HSF-photo-as17-134-20476 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12880 https://www.eso.org/public/images/sunspectrum-noao/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gas_planet_size_comparisons.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_line https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12467 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11323 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11323 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11371 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadtbahn_Bochum_Planetarium_2005290909.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3644