June Gallery

True-colour satellite image of southwest England

Devon, southwest England. True-colour satellite image of the county of Devon in southwest England, Great Britain. North is at top. The cities of Barnstaple (at upper left), Plymouth (at bottom centre), and Exeter (at right) are visible, though the rest of the county is largely rural. The main upland areas of Devon are Dartmoor (at lower centre) and Exmoor (at top right). Part of the neighbouring county of Cornwall appears at lower left. Image taken by the Landsat-5 satellite

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Cricket hearing organ, SEM

Cricket hearing organ. Coloured scanning electron micrograph of the hearing organ (tympanum) on the foreleg of a female house cricket (Acheta domestica). The male cricket attracts the female by his song, a chirping noise made by rubbing his wings together. The female uses the tympanum, situated below the knee joint, to pick up these vibrations. Hearing organs are also found on male crickets. Magnification: x60 at 5x7cm size. Magnification: x133 at 6x4.5 inch size

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