kids encyclopedia robot

Image: Butterflies and habitat

Kids Encyclopedia Facts
Original image ‎(3,498 × 3,643 pixels, file size: 12.28 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Description: These Painted Ladies (Cynthia cardui) emerged from cocoons aboard Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-93) during a 1999 mission to become the first butterflies in space. They were part of a student experiment to investigate how weightlessness affects the butterfly life cycle. In a habitat container like this one, metamorphosis from caterpillars to larvae in cocoons to butterflies occurred successfully without the influence of gravity. Picture taken at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, USA. Butterflies gift of Dougherty County School System High School/High Tech Program, Albany, Ga. Habitat gift of BioServe Space Technologies
Title: Butterflies and habitat
Credit: Own work
Author: Sanjay Acharya
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
License Link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
Attribution Required?: Yes

The following page links to this image:

kids search engine
All content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles (including the article images and facts) can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise.