• Question: what does the moon taste like?

    Asked by tumblebum to Jake, James, Pete, Senga, Simonne on 13 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Pete Gwynne

      Pete Gwynne answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      disappointingly, the moon is made of rock which doesn’t have much taste. mars might taste a bit salty though. NASA thinks there is salt on mars which is exciting because it looks like it might be from salty water, and water is useful if we ever want to go there. it also means that we’d have something to put on our chips if we do visit.

    • Photo: Senga Robertson

      Senga Robertson answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      Hi Tumblebum

      so I thought the moon would just taste like rock because that is what it is made of but I had a look on the internet (because I can’t lick the moon to test for myself) and I found out that Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke says it smells and tastes like gunpowder!

      I don’t know what gunpowder tastes like and I don’t know why Charlie Duke licked the moon but there we have it…gun powder.

      Senga 🙂

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