Photos document snowflake diversity - LiveScience - MSNBC.com

"Through rain and sleet and dead of night and all that, your letters next winter can be delivered bearing snowflakes artfully photographed by a physicist who weathers those same storms to study nature's crystal magic.

Starting in October, the U.S. Postal Service will issue a set of four stamps featuring pictures of snowflakes taken by Kenneth Libbrecht, a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology.



For years, Libbrecht has been studying the physics of snowflakes, looking at the different patterns of crystal growth and snowflake formation."

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