1999 MARCH MYSTERY IMAGE

It has been a busy month full of guesses. Many of you figured out what it was and the rest of you had some very creative answers. What was the mystery image? It was a pollen grain. The picture was taken with a scanning laser confocal microscope. Pollen is not really this color. The microscope adds pseudo colors (false colors).

Congratulations to: Daniel, Melanie, Birgit, Jake, Taylor, Yan, Mistique, Pina, Ottesen, Jakob, Ryan, Mike, Hallie, and Chelsea who guessed correctly. Also thanks to all that sent in their guess. We had some very creative people working on this mystery.

For those of you that are curious, here are some numbers from our list of guesses.

• 27% guessed that it was a pollen grain.
• 16% guessed that it was a blow fish.
• 11% guessed that it was a virus or bacteria.
• 8% guessed that it was a molecule.
• 8% guessed that it was a sticker.
• 8% guessed that it was from outer space.
• 6% guessed that it was a seed.
• 6% guessed that it was dust.
• 4% guessed that it was a cell.

Some of the creative single answers are listed below.

• Under water bomb.
• Porcupine Ball.
• A sticker that is in dry places like a in a field.
• Atom from Mars.
• A type of light bulb that is in the earths atmosphere. Kind of like something that floats in the atmosphere.