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Photo: snow crystals under microscope
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PD 8 - This image originally came from the Agricultural Research Service,
the research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Snow flakes highly magnified by a low-temperature scanning electron microscope (SEM).
The colours are called "pseudo colours", they are computer generated and are a standard technique used with SEM images.
