A ghost? This is a speck of dust sitting on a metal surface, seen close to the
edge of a piece of tape - the tape is the weird lumpy surface looming over the
whole scene. The ghostly figure (it looks to me a bit like a panda) may be
Extreme close-ups: Tape at 272x, using an electron microscope
This particular kind of tape has a kind of black cratered texture, and you can
just barely see the holes when you hold a piece of the tape in your hands. In
fact, the holes are right around the width of