Incredible electron microscope GIF gives an amazing sense of scale!

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This series of SEM (scanning electron microscope) images shows a tiny crustacean called an amphipod before zooming in on a miniscule diatom resting on its head, and finally picking out the shape of a single bacterium on the surface of the diatom. A truly awesome science GIF!

Via Smithsonian mag, GIPHY.

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