7 links have been added on 2 ideas about #solarsystem.
  1. Bacteria already won. Try cleaning that stuff off satellites and interstellar probes. Just found a great article in science news about it from a while back, which is worth digesting.

  2. Cool. “Our biggest current challenge is embedding these smart sensors into a flexible and compliant material that can expand as the modules are inflated in space,” Kim says.

  3. Now that sounds like a good application for buckypaper. According to this it can be used as a lightweight heat shield that can stand up to the impact of hypersonic speeds.