It’s wintertime and that means skiing, snowboarding and snowball fights. So, what does that have to do with the above photo? It’s a snowflake, dummy.
We’ve all seen the little crystalline images of what a tiny snowflake looks like (usually magnified 30x – 500x), but this photo takes it a step further.
The photo comes to us from the USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center who apparently has an electron microscope and some type of nifty device for storing frozen snow crystals in a vacuum so they can check ’em out with their multimillion dollar toy.
Pretty coo, huh? So next time you’re tearing up the slopes, spare a thought for these perfect little creations of mother nature that make it all possible.