Rimed Snowflake Under an Electron Microscope: The Capped Column
This strange, knobbly object is a single snow crystal photographed with a low-temperature scanning electron microscope at the US Department...
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Snowflake Close-Ups: 18 Photographs and the Science of Six-Sided Crystals
Every snowflake begins as a tiny hexagon of ice, and the best macro photographs show how far that simple start can go: six feathery arms, s...
A Guide to Snowflakes: Plates, Dendrites, Columns and Rime
A snowflake is either a single ice crystal or a cluster of crystals stuck together as they fall. Each crystal grows in a cloud as water vapo...