In 2008, perfumier Geza Schön created the scent of the surface of the sun for an exhibition. He aimed to capture the smell of 'hydrogen and helium with a molten cocktail of copper, terbium, strontium, antimony, and europium' at melting temperature. 🧪🔭 #ParkerSolarProbe - ThreadSky

drspacejunk.bsky.social • 63 days ago

In 2008, perfumier Geza Schön created the scent of the surface of the sun for an exhibition. He aimed to capture the smell of 'hydrogen and helium with a molten cocktail of copper, terbium, strontium, antimony, and europium' at melting temperature. 🧪🔭 #ParkerSolarProbe

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swren.bsky.social•63 days ago

I would buy a bottle just to have it.

penguingalaxy.bsky.social•63 days ago

OK, I seriously want to smell this!

ebolaphone.bsky.social•63 days ago

That sounds a bit like the aroma of nonsense! :)

drspacejunk.bsky.social•63 days ago

I bet you'd like to smell it, though ....

ebolaphone.bsky.social•63 days ago

I'm sure the perfume's very nice, in its own right.
Little to do with the sun though.

I wouldn't want my nose hairs burned off, that's for sure.

drspacejunk.bsky.social•63 days ago

I think it was meant to be a smell rather than a perfume. Your nose hairs are safe!

ebolaphone.bsky.social•63 days ago

I was thinking what could create an aroma in reality - would likely take airborne organic contaminants - new molecules created from the hot metals & plasma

drspacejunk.bsky.social•63 days ago

That bloke went on to make a series of perfumes called Molecule - I'm not sure if any of them picked up on the Sun theme. AromAtom makes all the planets!

rscotttiptonmpa.bsky.social•63 days ago

A decent website for real-time data:
https://theskylive.com/parkersolarprobe-info#:~:text=Right%20now%20it%20is%20placed,61.82%C2%B0%20above%20the%20horizon.

rscotttiptonmpa.bsky.social•63 days ago

Snippets Source: Article/Google AI

rscotttiptonmpa.bsky.social•63 days ago

I agree with Google AI.

popcorntheelf.bsky.social•63 days ago

I wonder what the probe smells like right now. Weird, but what if we could go get it and bring it home and just like check it out. I want to see it, and touch it, and smell it. What’s happened to it that we will never know?

drspacejunk.bsky.social•63 days ago

Yes! Its instruments are designed to collect particular solar data, but the spacecraft itself will have traces of the inner solar system and the sun all over it, telling the story of its journey - very physical and sensory. And we will never know!

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