The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to launch an ambitious mission to explore the X-ray vision capabilities of the common European lobster. Over the next four years, the ESA’s Lobster Eye X-ray Mission (LEXM) will investigate the unique visual system of the lobster and how it is adapted to both bright and dark environments. This mission will involve fitting lobsters with tiny cameras and sending them up to the International Space Station to study their responses to X-rays in microgravity. The results could help us understand the unique vision of lobsters and the evolutionary adaptation that allowed them to detect X-rays.

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source: Phys.org