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This SEM Nanogigapan is of a twig taken from a pygmy tree growing on the Mendocino coast. This is a cross section of the twig magnified 250x. You can make out the growth rings in this image. This Gigapan is part of the NanoGigaPan project. Which is working to take big pictures of very small things. Read more o...
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This is a small SEM Nanogigapan of a snail that we pulled off tidal rocks at Mendocino's Big River beach. This snail is magnified 300x and the image is composed of 64 pictures. This Gigapan is part of the NanoGigaPan project. Which is working to take big pictures of very small things. Read more on the project bl...
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This is a small SEM gigapan of sand found on the beach at Mendocino's "Big River" state park. This Gigapan is part of the NanoGigaPan project. Which is working to take large pictures of very small things. Read more on the project blog at nanogigapan.blogspot.com
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This is a small barnacle on the shell of a crab found washed up on big river beach in Mendocino, you can see the crab shell around the base of the barnacle. The barnacle is sitting next to a slightly larger barnacle which you can see part of on the right side of the picture. It is magnified 800x using a scanning elec...
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This is a small gigapan (48 pictures) of a piece of lichen. This lichen is magnified 300x using a scanning electron microscope. Lichen is an interesting organism, it is a mixture between a fungus and an algae which can withstand extreme environments. The Spanish have exposed lichen to the vacuum of space and shown t...
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This image is made up of 25 pictures taken using a scanning electron microscope. This is a small piece of driftwood from the Northern Californian coast. The segment we imaged is of the very center of the wood and you can see this by looking at how the structures seems to radiate from the middle of the gigapan. The d...
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This ant is from Madagascar, and is named Eutetramorium mocquerysi. The species is notable for having wingless queens that are indistinguishable from workers. This image is composed of 400 pictures, and it's magnified 400x using a scanning electron microscope. The ant was given to us to image by Brian Fisher (htt...
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This ant is from the species Strumigenys vazimba. These ants use their large head muscles to snap their mandibles close at high speed. This picture is composed of 132 images stitched together. The ant is mangnified 500x using a scanning electron microscope. The ant was given to us to image by Brian Fisher, a scien...
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This ant is from the species Proceratium MG03 which is thought to be a specialized predator of spider eggs. This Nano Gigapan is of the front view of the ants head. It is magnified 600x using a scanning electron microscope. The ant was given to us to image by Brian Fisher, an Entomologist at the California Academy...
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This is a side view of an ant magnified 500x using the scanning electron microscope. This sample was given to us by Brian Fisher, a scientist from the California Academy of Sciences. This ant is from the species Proceratium MG03 which is thought to be a specialized predator of spider eggs. This Gigapan is part...
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