Marine snowflakes (IMAGE)
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Small marine "snowflakes" are very important for the nutrient balance of the oceans. The particle shown here is highly magnified - in reality small particles are only about the width of a human hair and thus barely visible.
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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology / C. Karthäuser and S. Ahmerkamp
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