WASHINGTON 鈥� No, this isn’t a schoolyard joke: Top scientists have discovered聽the planet Uranus really does reek.
Due to “clouds of hydrogen sulfide” 鈥� the chemical compound that smells similar to a rotten egg 鈥� Uranus isn’t exactly the most habitable planet for humans, according to the .
“If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus’ clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odoriferous conditions,” Patrick Irwin, first author of the study and a physics professor at the University of Oxford, .
There’s also the minor issue of temperatures reaching below 392 degrees below zero on the planet.
Scientists hadn’t found clear evidence of the planet’s chemical composition until now.
A Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS), a device in Hawaii, was used to filter sunlight reflected above the clouds to describe what the gas molecules are made of, The Register reported.
