{"id":241702,"date":"2016-06-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3e0975c4b63f95dfcb5f0bb0f6b1d908"},"modified":"2016-06-24T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:00:00","slug":"securing-aeolus-against-atomic-oxygen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=241702","title":{"rendered":"Securing Aeolus against atomic oxygen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/06\/securing_aeolus_against_atomic_oxygen\/16042784-1-eng-GB\/Securing_Aeolus_against_atomic_oxygen_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nUp at the top of the atmosphere the oxygen we breathe is replaced by highly reactive \u2018atomic oxygen\u2019 \u2013 created by high-energy ultraviolet splitting apart oxygen molecules into separate atoms. Low-orbiting space missions can be susceptible; the effect was first uncovered as early Space Shuttles returned to Earth with their thermal blankets eaten through. ESA\u2019s Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory was tasked with investigating the resilience of \u2018beta cloth\u2019 fibre intended for ESA\u2019s Aeolus wind-mapping mission. Testing took place using the Lab\u2019s atomic oxygen generator, followed by microscopic inspection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/06\/securing_aeolus_against_atomic_oxygen\/16042784-1-eng-GB\/Securing_Aeolus_against_atomic_oxygen_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nUp at the top of the atmosphere the oxygen we breathe is replaced by highly reactive &lsquo;atomic oxygen&rsquo; &ndash; created by high-energy ultraviolet splitting apart oxygen molecules into separate atoms. Low-orbiting space missions can be susceptible; the effect was first uncovered as early Space Shuttles returned to Earth with their thermal blankets eaten through. ESA&rsquo;s Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory was tasked with investigating the resilience of &lsquo;beta cloth&rsquo; fibre intended for ESA&rsquo;s Aeolus wind-mapping mission. Testing took place using the Lab&rsquo;s atomic oxygen generator, followed by microscopic inspection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241703,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241702\/revisions\/241703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}