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EARTHDATE: January 23, 2011

Official News page 12


PICTURES OF THE WEEK: SNOWFLAKES

by Hazed

What do you know about snowflakes? They are always six-sided. They are supposed to be unique with no two ever being exactly alike. That's what I was taught as a child and you probably were two. Now, you can see pictures that prove it.

The Electron Microscopy Unit of the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center has been photographing snowflakes under an electron microscope in order to study their structure, and here's an amazing gallery of some of the images.

Yes, they really do have six sides.


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