Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting ...

A study nearly 10 years in the making has shed new insight into how oxides can regularly sustain themselves, using the oxygen ...

Upon exposure to atomic oxygen in low Earth orbit (LEO), Kapton is severely eroded. An effective approach to prevent this erosion is to incorporate polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) into the ...

Materials in low Earth orbit (LEO) face radiation, atomic oxygen erosion, and extreme temperature fluctuations, which can severely compromise their structural and functional integrity. Developing ...

Every year, billions of dollars are invested in research and development for space applications, including new systems, new technologies, and new materials. DLC (Diamond-Like Carbon) is a promising ...

In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen.

However, in new research that furthers our understanding of the planet's atmospheric evolution, astronomers announced they've directly detected the presence of atomic oxygen in both the day and ...

They noted that this atomic oxygen, which consists of a single oxygen atom, differs from molecular oxygen, which consists of two oxygen atoms and is breathable. The researchers directly detected ...

Abstract: Polymers used on low earth orbit (LEO) spacecraft surface suffer from an ultraviolet (UV) irradiation and orbital atomic oxygen (AO) erosion. These degradations may change the total electron ...

However, exposure to a low-Earth-orbit environment containing atomic oxygen (AO) results in the disintegration ... of AO leads to chemical reactions between AO and Kapton/Upilex-S. Erosion proceeds ...