Snow under a Microscope

[The Helper]

Incredible Pictures of Snow Under a Microscope

http://www.akirathedon.com/blobblog/snow-under-a-microscope/

 

[Whitesock]

Is that really what they look like? It's so geometric.

 

[thewrongvine]

lol, at least snow doesn't look like this.

Spoiler

Oh sand.

~Hai-Bye-Vine~

 

[esb]

I thought the sand was cereal at first xD

 

[Duwenbasden]

i just love superzoomed images

 

[Ninja_sheep]

That's probably a very expensive microscope he got there.

 

[tom_mai78101]

Wow, nice hair you got there, thewrongvine.

If there's a superzoom on computer chips, I'm in for a glimpse.

 

[UndeadDragon]

That's probably a very expensive microscope he got there.

Agreed. The last one is x36000

 

[Vestras]

That's beautiful...

 

[Jedimindtrixxx]

lol, at least snow doesn't look like this.

or this:

Spoiler

really really cool pictures. why do they make the 'snowflake' shape though?

 

[esb]

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/81233544/

More Microscope images. Also, I've read multiple times that each snowflake is unique.

 

[FireCat]

Wow :thup:

 

[Ninja_sheep]

Pretty sure they cheated with color saturation.

 

[Flare]

Wow, nice hair you got there, thewrongvine

Hair? I thought it looked more like a mark from a biro :S

@jedimindtrixxx: That first one is... brilliant

 

[Whitesock]

Pretty sure they cheated with color saturation.

With that microscope any color at all is artificial.

 

[Romek]

"Bandwidth Limit Exceeded"
Did anyone save the images by any chance?

 

[sqrage]

With that microscope any color at all is artificial.

Romek, here's one of the images from wikipedia.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Snowflake_300um_LTSEM,_13368.jpg

And yes whitesock is right about the colors. This microscope doesn't use light AFAIK.