You remember last winter, when everything was white and you had so much fun building a snowman with your friends? What you see on this image above, is what you would see, if you took a tiny tiny piece of your snowman and put it under a low-temperature scanning electron microscope (SEM). The colours are called “pseudo colours”, they are computer generated based on the number of electron ...[Read More]
Image of the Week – The Journey of a Snowflake
Figure 1: Snowflakes viewed with a low temperature scanning electron microscope (SEM). [ Credit : Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture via Wikimedia ]