If spotting a ladybug is considered good luck, seeing one zoomed in under our Scanning Electron Microscopes probably magnifies its luckiness by 50,000X!
That makes today your lucky day.
Daniel Lund from Glenwood Intermediate School sent in a ladybug to ASPEX Corporation for image analysis using the ASPEX Personal SEM.
Manual image analysis was performed on the ladybug using the ASPEX PSEM eXplorer. The customer had requested that ASPEX provide images, so reports were prepared using ASPEX Personal Image Print II (PIPTM).
Backscanner electron detector (BSED) images were collected under high vacuum conditions and 20 KeV. The ladybug sample was gold coated to eliminate sample charging.
Compare this image to the SEM image of a fly’s head. And be sure to check out the rest of our Personal SEM Image Gallery.
