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By:Molly Gibson (mollyg) on
July 7, 2009
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barnacle
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crab
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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 electron microscope, and the image is composed of 384 pictures.
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 http://nanogigapan.blogspot.com
and see more of our work on the gigapan site at http://gigapan.org/profiles/mollyg
Date Taken: July 7, 2009
Date Added: July 7, 2009
Bookmarked: 3 times
Total Views: 6208 views
Snapshots: 38
Size: 0.30 gigapixels
Field of View: 1.0 degrees wide, 1.0 degrees high
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July 7, 2009 15:25 | Flag as inappropriate |
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Stellar. One of the most fantastic things I've ever seen -- I feel utterly lost in looking at it. I understand that this project is helping Science, of course, but it has totally gone straight over into Art, as far as I am concerned. Posted by yarnivore |
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July 9, 2009 03:26 | Flag as inappropriate |
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Rich pointed me to this SEM gigapan. It is really fantastic. I remember studying some of the smaller creatures in general biology, but of course I cannot remember the names. This really has some cool textures and symmetry. Thanks for working hard at scanning and photographing all of these subjects. I really enjoy looking at them. Posted by Castillonis |
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July 15, 2009 14:21 | Flag as inappropriate |
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The organisms lodged in the barnacle are diatoms. These alga have a cell wall of silica and are one of the most common organisms in phytoplankton of the oceans (fresh water, as well). Because the cell walls are so persistent, they readily sink and have formed deposits which are mined (diatomaceous earth) for swimming pool filters and a natural pesticide (the silica damages insect exoskeletons and they die of dehydration) . Posted by gpvarney |
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