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Toroid

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The roadster is decaying due to solar radiation. Over time only its glass and aluminum parts will be left. I wonder if there's any plans for it to pull into a body shop.
'Starman' just zipped past Mars in his rapidly-decaying Tesla Roadster | Live Science
At this point, if you were to go look at the Roadster, it probably would look pretty different. As Live Science reported in 2018, the harsh solar radiation environment between the planets would probably have wrecked all the exposed organic materials (red paint, rubber tires, leather seats and the like), breaking the carbon bonds that hold them together. And without Earth's protective atmosphere and magnetic shielding, even the robust plastics in the windshield and carbon fiber materials would start to disintegrate. Over the course of decades or centuries, the car should be reduced to its aluminum frame and sturdiest glass parts — assuming none of them get destroyed in impacts with passing space rocks.
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