Scallops Mirror Eyes at Rachel Fairweather blog

Scallops Mirror Eyes. In scallops, the remarkable eyes of which have been a continuous source of surprise for decades, this mirror is concave and focuses an image. The latest surprise is the mirror. For over half a century, the multitudinous mirror eyes of the lowly scallop have continuously amazed us with their visual eccentricities. Each of a scallop’s eyes — it has up to 200 of them, each about a millimeter in diameter — contains millions of perfectly square, flat crystals that build up into a mirrored mosaic, new. Scientists have known since at least the 1960s that scallops use mirrors at the backs of their eyes to reflect light forward and project images onto their double retinas. For millions of years, scallops have been gazing at the world using dozens of eyes, each of which has a segmented mirror that’s uncannily similar to those in our grandest telescopes. As light enters into the scallop eye, it passes through the pupil, a lens, two retinas (distal and proximal), and then reaches a mirror.

In scallops, the remarkable eyes of which have been a continuous source of surprise for decades, this mirror is concave and focuses an image. The latest surprise is the mirror. For millions of years, scallops have been gazing at the world using dozens of eyes, each of which has a segmented mirror that’s uncannily similar to those in our grandest telescopes. Each of a scallop’s eyes — it has up to 200 of them, each about a millimeter in diameter — contains millions of perfectly square, flat crystals that build up into a mirrored mosaic, new. For over half a century, the multitudinous mirror eyes of the lowly scallop have continuously amazed us with their visual eccentricities. Scientists have known since at least the 1960s that scallops use mirrors at the backs of their eyes to reflect light forward and project images onto their double retinas. As light enters into the scallop eye, it passes through the pupil, a lens, two retinas (distal and proximal), and then reaches a mirror.

Study Scallops have 200 eyes, which function like a telescope CGTN

Scallops Mirror Eyes In scallops, the remarkable eyes of which have been a continuous source of surprise for decades, this mirror is concave and focuses an image. For over half a century, the multitudinous mirror eyes of the lowly scallop have continuously amazed us with their visual eccentricities. In scallops, the remarkable eyes of which have been a continuous source of surprise for decades, this mirror is concave and focuses an image. Each of a scallop’s eyes — it has up to 200 of them, each about a millimeter in diameter — contains millions of perfectly square, flat crystals that build up into a mirrored mosaic, new. For millions of years, scallops have been gazing at the world using dozens of eyes, each of which has a segmented mirror that’s uncannily similar to those in our grandest telescopes. Scientists have known since at least the 1960s that scallops use mirrors at the backs of their eyes to reflect light forward and project images onto their double retinas. The latest surprise is the mirror. As light enters into the scallop eye, it passes through the pupil, a lens, two retinas (distal and proximal), and then reaches a mirror.