Ice Crystal
This was taken by myself using a optical microscope taken of a single ice crystal that we had collected. We were using polarized light, so you can see that the light is being polarized going through the beautiful structure of the ice crystals. The nucleus that the ice crystal’s growing out is at the...
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| Summary: | This was taken by myself using a optical microscope taken of a single ice crystal that we had collected. We were using polarized light, so you can see that the light is being polarized going through the beautiful structure of the ice crystals. The nucleus that the ice crystal’s growing out is at the very center of that location. And that’s the material that we were trying to analyze. But ice crystals will grow on individual particles in the Antarctic atmosphere, and then these ice crystals will sublimate to the surface. This is what happens instead of snowfall, ice crystal precipitation. |
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