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Coyotl

(15,262 posts) Wed Dec 4, 2013, 11:45 PM Dec 2013

Let's celebrate the cold. Scanning Electron Micrograph (Cyro-SEM) image collection of snowflakes.

Check this link out, lots of images with click thru thumbnails of beautiful photos:

Cryo-SEM of Snow
http://remf.dartmouth.edu/freshsnow/freshsnow.html

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Let's celebrate the cold. Scanning Electron Micrograph (Cyro-SEM) image collection of snowflakes. (Original Post) Coyotl Dec 2013 OP

Looks like a Picasso painting. NutmegYankee Dec 2013 #1

I would say how lovely they are, LadyHawkAZ Dec 2013 #2

you want I should kick your freezing ass, LadyHawkAZ? Skittles Dec 2013 #3

Thank you ma'am, may I have another?? LadyHawkAZ Dec 2013 #9

Okay, I'll just add this one here... countryjake Dec 2013 #4

Nice at that size. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #5

Good point. When you need to climb out an upper story window with the snow shovel .... Coyotl Dec 2013 #6

Yep Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #7

If you are shoveling you are doing it wrong snooper2 Dec 2013 #8

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)

1. Looks like a Picasso painting.

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2013, 11:49 PM

Dec 2013

LadyHawkAZ

(6,199 posts)

2. I would say how lovely they are,

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2013, 11:52 PM

Dec 2013

but it's 17 degrees outside right now and I refuse to help celebrate the cold.

Skittles

(153,160 posts)

3. you want I should kick your freezing ass, LadyHawkAZ?

Reply to LadyHawkAZ (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 4, 2013, 11:55 PM

Dec 2013

I'll make you forget how cold it is; yes INDEED

LadyHawkAZ

(6,199 posts)

9. Thank you ma'am, may I have another??

Reply to Skittles (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 5, 2013, 03:03 PM

Dec 2013

Anything to make me not feel like an icicle.

countryjake

(8,554 posts)

4. Okay, I'll just add this one here...

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2013, 04:23 AM

Dec 2013

This magnified image of snow crystals was captured by a low-temperature scanning electron microscope (SEM).
The pseudo colors commonly found in SEM images are computer generated, and in this case highlight the different flake formations. —Credit: Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture

National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/snow/science/formation.html

It's 18 degrees out now and we may be getting snow by morning. I have my magnifying glass ready. I have two cold kitties on my lap and they are wondering why I want to celebrate.