merlin:


Snow crystals


  Snow flakes highly magnified by a low-temperature scanning electron microscope (SEM). The colours are called “pseudo colours”, they are computer generated and are a standard technique used with SEM images.



That’s got to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Snow_crystals.png

merlin:

Snow crystals

Snow flakes highly magnified by a low-temperature scanning electron microscope (SEM). The colours are called “pseudo colours”, they are computer generated and are a standard technique used with SEM images.

That’s got to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.