September 4, 2018 05:29 pm PDT
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Startling microscopic view of a butterfly
The Beauty of Science's "Microworld Unseen" project reveals the hidden beauty and weirdness of everyday objects through the "eye" of a scanning electron microscopes (SEMS). Capable of imaging at 1 nanometer resolution (one billionth of a meter) or less, SEMS scan the sample surface with a focused electron beam to generate topographic data that's used to produce the image. The first specimen in the Microworld Unseen series is a butterfly called the pale grass blue (Pseudozizeeria maha). Below is the butterfly's genitalia.
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