Butterfly Wings Look Completely Crazy Under an Electron Microscope

Destin over atSmarterEveryDaywanted to take an up - close look at the nanostructure of a butterfly ’s wing , so he took a few sample to be depend at under a scanning electron microscope . The resultant are fascinatingly beautiful .

Destin and Dr. Robert Simmons at Georgia State University bring out the tiniest details of a butterfly ’s offstage using an LEO 1450VP scanning negatron microscope that can view object as small as 30 nm , little than most virus . At full zoom , they discover strikingly well - ordered , micrometer - sized structures that create the color of the butterfly stroke ’s extension . brainsick cool stuff . At nearly 10 minutes , it ’s a longish video , but where else can you get such a close feel at the biomechanics of a butterfly ? [ SmarterEveryDay ]

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