Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Amazing Electron Microscope Shots

 

 

                                                                 Amazing Electron Microscope Shots

 

Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope Pictures

All these pictures are from the book ' Microcosmos', created by Brandon Brill from London. This book includes many scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of insects, human body parts and household items. These are the most amazing images of what is too small to see with the naked eye.

01 — A wood or heathland Ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip

 

02 — The surface of an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory silicon microchip

 

 

04 — The surface of a strawberry

 

05 — Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue

 

 

07 — The nylon hooks and loops of velcro

 

08 — Household dust which includes long hairs such as cat fur, twisted synthetic and woolen fibers, serrated insect scales, a pollen grain, plant and insect remains

 

09 —The weave of a nylon stocking

 

 

11 — The head of a mosquito

 

12 — A human head louse clinging to a hair

 

13 — The eight eyes (two groups of four) on the head of a Mexican red-kneed tarantula

 

14 — Cut hairs and shaving foam between two razor blades

 

15 — Cigarette paper

 

16 — The corroded surface of a rusty metal nail

 

17 — The head of a Romanesco cauliflower

 

18 — The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

 

19 — Mushrooms spores

 

20 — A clutch of unidentified butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant

 

 

 

 22 — A daisy bud

 

23 — Calcium phosphate crystal

 

 

 

  

 

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