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This Diatom is named Bob, and it is the most photographed phytoplankton to ever live.
This project aimed to capture the full beauty of Diatoms, microscopic algae with glass shells that live in all of Earth’s aquatic environments. This species is Thalassiosira Rotula, a centric marine diatom that grows in chains.
This 200 megapixel image was produced by taking hundreds of images with a Scanning Electron Microscope, and combining them into a mosaic.
