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The colder the weather, the better his chances are of capturing a microscopic photograph of a snowflake. Now, nearly two years in the making, Myhrvold has developed what he bills as the...
No two snowflakes are the same? Well that's only sort of true. Have an up close look under the microscope at these incredible naturally forming structures.
Wilson A. Bentley took the first photograph of a snowflake under a microscope. His collection was full of perfectly symmetrical, yet unique six-sided crystals, our iconic view of snowflakes.
When snow falls, he catches the flakes on a black velvet tray and then transfers them onto the microscope glass with a needle. Since the snowflakes melt quickly, he usually has less than a...
Photographer Nathan Myhrvold has captured the most detailed images of snowflakes on record thanks to a custom-built high-resolution cooled camera he made to specifically deal with the numerous...
If you've ever wondered what snowflakes truly look like, spend a few moments admiring their structure up close in these images from an electron microscope.
These snowflake photos were taken by Kenneth Libbrecht of CalTech, using a specially-designed snowflake photomicroscope. They show real snow crystals that fell to earth in northern Ontario,...