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punkncat
10-25-2006, 07:58 PM
Linked this off wiki.....thanks to FARK.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Snowflake_300um_LTSEM%2C_13368.jpg/800px-Snowflake_300um_LTSEM%2C_13368.jpg


Its a snow crystal with frost on the ends.
Archangel Kid
10-25-2006, 08:03 PM
Thats shot at 300 Micrometers. Not sure if everyone knows what um stands for. That is an awesome picture though.
punkncat
10-25-2006, 08:06 PM
Thats shot at 300 Micrometers. Not sure if everyone knows what um stands for.


It means really freaking small.
Cow hunter
10-25-2006, 08:08 PM
.3 of a millimeter to be exact
Altimas
10-25-2006, 08:26 PM
Almost looks manmade... Weird.
olinar
10-25-2006, 09:05 PM
awesome pic!!do you have a shot of it without that amazing zoom.if you do could you highlight the snow flake.that so cool though!
Chronobreak
10-25-2006, 09:54 PM
awesome pic!!do you have a shot of it without that amazing zoom.if you do could you highlight the snow flake.that so cool though!


looks like severl snowflakes in the pic, the large dumbel appears to be one of them.

very very cool indeeed, ide like to see more and the differances.
minimag86
10-25-2006, 10:37 PM
Here is a link to some I dug up just for your viewing pleasure. Link (http://emu.arsusda.gov/snowsite/default.html)
FlawleZ
10-26-2006, 12:13 AM
Almost looks manmade... Weird.

Agreed. Definitely cool though.
MoeMag
10-26-2006, 12:04 PM
Wow. My question was how does one put a snowflake in a electron microscope without vaporizing...
but there it was...

A low temp scanner.

Impressive
:wow:
PyRo
10-26-2006, 12:22 PM
Wow. My question was how does one put a snowflake in a electron microscope without vaporizing...
but there it was...

A low temp scanner.

Impressive
:wow:
It doesn't take more than a good manifying glass to see individual snowflakes.
edweird
10-26-2006, 12:35 PM
brass eagle is making snowflakes now?

and I thought they had already reached the pinnacle of injection molding technology