FEI electronic microscope image contest top 3 images [pics]
 

Third place:Forepart of a mite

Image Details
Instrument used: Quanta Family
Magnification: 800
Horizontal Field Width: 170
Vacuum: 0.4
Voltage: 3
Spot: 3
Working Distance: 11.7
Detector: SE
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5239/...eb4fdd32_b.jpg


Second place: Capillary net of an alveola showing the erythrocytes within the blood vessels.
Image Details
Instrument used: Quanta Family
Magnification: 1800:1
Vacuum: High Vac
Voltage: 5kv
Working Distance: 9mm
Detector: SE+BSE
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...od_vessels.jpg


First place: microcrack after bending test
Image Details
Instrument used: Nova DualBeam Family
Horizontal Field Width: 67µm
Voltage: 5kV
Working Distance: 6.0
Detector: ETD - SE
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5107/...06138cc9_o.jpg

pretty neat but the 2nd one kind of wigs me out

Just be glad its not a smoker's lung.

Some ointment will clean that right up.

Seems like the 2nd place should have won.

My favorite was #1... it's a classic portrait--beautifully posed, great lighting, and the background is nicely out of focus.

All these pics are amazing :pimp

wow pretty awesome

are the colors real and unretouched? or are they photoshopped and colorized?

Dat is Mars no?

awesome pics!

was wondering the same thing...

looks like normal stuff, so maybe we are mini shit like this to someone :LD

cool stuff :thumbsup

you are closer than you think...

Really cool pics!

beautiful..... science > religion

images like that, and of "outer space" amaze me.

gorgeous pictures without a doubt, thanks for sharing dyna

usually images like these are coloured to separate out the bits that the average person wouldn't be able to identify.