What does Saturn taste like?

(I'll let you figure it out.) Saturn has a bit of lemon merengue going on, to my eye, and it has some of the most flavorful moons in the solar system. Titan is covered in an orange haze that makes it look a lot like ... an orange, of course.
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What would Saturn smell like?

Saturn and Neptune probably don't have much of a smell because they're composed chiefly of the odourless gases hydrogen and helium.
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Is Saturn poisonous?

Saturn is mostly made of gas and it contains an atmosphere that would be very toxic to humans. The gases that make up the majority of Saturn's atmosphere are hydrogen and helium, while the atmosphere on Earth is mostly made of nitrogen and oxygen.
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Can humans breathe on Saturn?

Second, like the rest of the planet, the atmosphere on Saturn consists of roughly 75% hydrogen and 25% helium, which means there is little to no oxygen…which means there will be little to no breathing. Third, Saturn is a rather windy place.
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Does it rain diamonds on Saturn?

About 10 million tons of diamond rain down on Saturn each year. The new molecule is relatively heavy, and when attracted by the planet's gravity, begins to be drawn downwards.
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Can humans go to Titan?

On January 14, 2005, humans successfully achieved an incredible feat unsurpassed to date. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Huygens probe, a metal pie-plate looking device 1.3 metres in diameter, parachuted down onto Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons, and landed unscathed on its surface.
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What does Uranus taste like?

The planet tastes like ammonia. The body part tastes similar to licking a dollar bill.
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What does the moon taste like?

But they did react: "It is really a strong smell," radioed Apollo 16 pilot Charlie Duke. "It has that taste -- to me, [of] gunpowder -- and the smell of gunpowder, too." On the next mission, Apollo 17, Gene Cernan remarked, "smells like someone just fired a carbine in here."
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What does Neptune taste like?

Neptune? It's a blueberry. A cold, cloudy blueberry.
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Can you walk on Saturn's rings?

While they look like giant discs, they're not a solid track at all. Instead, they're made of millions of chunks of ice, some as tiny as dust particles, others as large as buses. But if you were able to hike on one of Saturn's outermost rings, you'll walk about 12 million kilometers to make it around the longest one.
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What if you fell into Saturn?

So, if you tried to walk on this part of Saturn, you would sink through its atmosphere. Saturn's atmosphere is very thick and its pressure increases the deeper you go. After a while, you would stop sinking and unfortunately be crushed by the high pressure deeper in Saturn's atmosphere.
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What planet rains diamonds?

Deep within Neptune and Uranus, it rains diamonds—or so astronomers and physicists have suspected for nearly 40 years. The outer planets of our Solar System are hard to study, however. Only a single space mission, Voyager 2, has flown by to reveal some of their secrets, so diamond rain has remained only a hypothesis.
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What does space taste like?

In 2009, astronomers were able to identify a chemical called ethyl formate in a big dust cloud at the center of the Milky Way. Ethyl formate happens to be responsible for the flavor of raspberries (it also smells like rum). Space tastes like raspberries!
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What does moon smell like?

After walking on the Moon astronauts hopped back into their lunar lander, bringing Moon dust with them. They were surprised, and perplexed, to find that it smelled like spent gunpowder.
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What does Mars smell like?

Mars is made up primarily of iron, magnesium, sulfur, acids and CO2. Humans can't breathe on Mars, which is probably a good thing because it stinks. Based on the make-up of the planet and atmosphere, researchers have concluded that Mars smells like rotten eggs.
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Can you smell a fart in space?

Therefore, the fart will not be smelled by the astronaut, although they may marinate in it for a time. When astronauts are not in the space suit and floating about, the fart smell is exaggerated by the lack of airflow from the recycled air used and its inability to mask any smell.
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What does space smell like?

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 ...
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What does Mercury the planet taste like?

taste qualities

…of heavy metals such as mercury have a metallic taste, although some of the salts of lead (especially lead acetate) and beryllium are sweet. Both parts of the molecule (e.g., lead and acetate) contribute to taste quality and to stimulating efficiency.
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Does Venus smell like rotten eggs?

The surface of Venus is not where you'd like to be, with temperatures that can melt lead, an atmosphere so thick it would crush you, and clouds of sulfuric acid that smell like rotten eggs to top it off! The atmosphere of Venus is very hot and thick.
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Does Earth have a smell?

That mysterious scent has been called “petrichor”, and a main component of it is an organic compound called geosmin, which lingers around moist soil. Geosmin comes from the ancient Greek “geo”, meaning earth, and “osme”, meaning smell.
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Is there gold in Mars?

In addition, lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, niobium, molybdenum, lanthanum, europium, tungsten, and gold have been found in trace amounts.
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How cold is space?

The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite has refined temperature measurements taken way back in 1964. According to data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the temperature of space is 2.725K (2.725 degrees above absolute zero).
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