Found a great picture posted up on the Wired Science blog, showing an electron micrograph taken by scientist Geoff Brennecka. Intending to take photos of a tantalum oxide crystal, the person before him on the microscope hadn’t quite managed to get rid of some polystyrene beads, which ended up sticking to the edge of his sample. Result? Looks like someone falling off the edge of a cliff!
Image courtesy of the Materials Research Society
The image recently won second place at the Materials Research Society Spring 2008 Science as Art competition in San Francisco. I can’t seem to find this year’s images posted yet, but you can see winning entries from previous years here.
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