Scientists are creating a database of colors that will provide information about other planets’ ability to support life. It is a library of so-called biosignatures, the colors that living creatures—in this case, a hundred and thirty-seven species of microbe—reflect back when illuminated. Viewed side by side in their petri dishes, the library’s sample colonies look like a set of punk eye shadows, Nicola Twilley writes.
Image Courtesy Hegde et al., PNAS, 2015.
The Lensblr Gallery presents:
Hope
Juan Manuel Saenz De Santa Maria
5 of 10
(via lensblr-network)