“striped icebergs, antarctica” by oyvind tangen
(the striping in the icebergs is caused by ice sheets filling with meltwater and freezing so quickly that no bubbles are formed.)
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Iceland
And this is why I want to go to Iceland.
that first picture… shnikes.
Whole mount of a spiral nematode at 160x magnification. 1st place in the 1985 Nikon Small World Competition.
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Successive close-ups of the scales of a Peacock butterfly wing.
Shown from left to right, top to bottom: (second row) a closeup of the scales of the specimen at top, high magnification view of coloured scales (different species); (third row) electron micrograph of a patch of wing (~×50 magnification), the scales close up (~×200); (last row) a single scale (×1000), microstructure of a scale (×5000).
(photos: MichaD (top and second row left), Shaddack (second row right), SecretDisc (micrographs))
GOOD MORNING!](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz6ynip2Th1qc6j5yo1_500.jpg)
[via rhamphotheca]:
Successive close-ups of the scales of a Peacock butterfly wing.
Shown from left to right, top to bottom: (second row) a closeup of the scales of the specimen at top, high magnification view of coloured scales (different species); (third row) electron micrograph of a patch of wing (~×50 magnification), the scales close up (~×200); (last row) a single scale (×1000), microstructure of a scale (×5000).
(photos: MichaD (top and second row left), Shaddack (second row right), SecretDisc (micrographs))
GOOD MORNING!
