It's Official: Uranus Smells Like Farts

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This title was too good to not post… This is an article from Mental Floss, and it begins:

“Poor Uranus: After years of being the butt of many schoolyard jokes, the planet’s odor lives up to the unfortunate name. According to a new study by researchers at the University of Oxford and other institutions, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the upper layer of Uranus’s atmosphere consists largely of hydrogen sulfide—the same compound that gives farts their putrid stench.”…

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