How Do You Take a Picture of Teeny Star Wars Replicas?
Some of you might be thinking, if these are so small, how on Earth did the team manage to take photos of them? They used a scanning electron microscope, an instrument that scans a focused electron beam over an object to create an image. Paliard explained that to get the Falcon under the electron microscope, they had to fix it to a glass substrate.
The Falcon measures 100 x 70.8 x 23.4 microns. By comparison, the width of a strand of hair is 100 microns.
