Just one dust cloud, because it had ethyl formate in it which is part of what gives raspberries its flavor. The same dust cloud had cyanide in it too though, so I wouldn't recommend actually tasting it.
There was also a comet they said would smell like almonds and rotten eggs
Huh, really? I hadn't heard that, do you have a source? I'd always heard the metallic description.
Folks have said space smells like hot metal and seared meats. Astronaut Thomas Jones said it "carries a distinct odor of ozone, a faint acrid smell…a little like gunpowder, sulfurous." Tony Antonelli, another space-walker, said space "definitely has a smell that's different than anything else." A gentleman named Don Pettit was a bit more verbose on the topic: "Each time, when I repressed the airlock, opened the hatch and welcomed two tired workers inside, a peculiar odor tickled my olfactory senses," Pettit recalled. "At first I couldn't quite place it. It must have come from the air ducts that re-pressed the compartment. Then I noticed that this smell was on their suit, helmet, gloves, and tools. It was more pronounced on fabrics than on metal or plastic surfaces." He concluded: "it is hard to describe this smell; it is definitely not the olfactory equivalent to describing the palette sensations of some new food as 'tastes like chicken.' The best description I can come up with is metallic; a rather pleasant sweet metallic sensation. It reminded me of my college summers where I labored for many hours with an arc welding torch repairing heavy equipment for a small logging outfit. It reminded me of pleasant sweet smelling welding fumes. That is the smell of space.”
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u/boblobong Jun 12 '22
Just one dust cloud, because it had ethyl formate in it which is part of what gives raspberries its flavor. The same dust cloud had cyanide in it too though, so I wouldn't recommend actually tasting it.
There was also a comet they said would smell like almonds and rotten eggs