This might look like a satellite photo of a post-apocalyptic wasteland (or maybe just west Texas right now, because it is that hot outside), but what you're seeing is actually a fortune cookie at 150x magnification.
Caren Alpert has a series of microscope photographs of food--from the feathery tail of a shrimp to the rocky moonscape of chocolate cake (at 320x magnification!)--and we highly recommend going to her website to see the whole gallery at full size.
