Rimed Snow Crystals: A Microscopic Weather History
The crystal has a geometric centre and surprisingly rough ends. Under a microscope, snow can look much less like a neat paper cut-out and m...
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18 Snowflake Photographs: Patterns Worth a Closer Look
A snowflake close-up reveals patterns that disappear when snow becomes a white landscape. Branches, small plates and overlapping crystals gi...
A Guide to Snowflakes: Plates, Dendrites, Columns and Rime
Take a minute to have a good look and try to understand what snow is. A snowflake is either a single ice crystal or an aggregation of ice ...