August 29, 2007: Snowflake under electron microscope

[Scriveyn]

Originally Posted by Brianna

It looks like a concrete snowflake. ...

I had been wondering how they did it, beacause electron microscopes can only image objects whose surface is electrically conductive. - So these are platinum coated snowflakes.
Can we make a necklace of them after they're no longer needed for science? :p

(see their explanation here: http://emu.arsusda.gov/snowsite/4100/4100.html)