Electron Microscope Photo of cracking in steel

[elementfe]

Hope this comes through, I'm pretty noobly when it comes to posting photos.
It looks like the grand canyon! Which is how any cracking in my steel looks to me anyway, haha.
Andy

 

[Don Nguyen]

Looks like clay.

That's pretty darn cool though. Approximately what magnification is this at?

 

[fast14riot]

Yeah, a scale would help tremendously. It is a very cool shot either way!


-Xander

 

[Phil Dwyer]

Wow, way cool!

If you can cite the source that would be good too.

 

[Burton Harruff]

Very cool photo. Thanks for sharing.

 

[quint]

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/94797-whats-this-its-not-the-grand-canyon

 

[elementfe]

Thanks, Quint- my source for the photo didn't give a credit.

 

[Ed Fowler]

Thanks for the site: I was completely stumped by the colors, never thought of photo shop.

 

[stevomiller]

That's really a neat shot. One R&D job I did we had an electron microscope. For fun we took pics of all sorts of things (b&w): many looked like wild landscapes, and could just about pass for something from Ansel Adams . If someone didn't tell you it was a speck of dust, or a fly's backside you'd never guess in a hundred years.

 

[logem]

Thanks for posting. Very interesting.

Mike L.