A raindrop releasing thousands of aerosols, captured with high-speed imaging.JOUNG ET AL. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

(See Y.S. Joung et al., “Bioaerosol generation by raindrops on soil,” Nat Commun, doi:10.1038/ncomms14668, 2017.)

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