Here is a texture, when I first saw it I would swear it was sand, but look close at the texture. Notice how it has a polished granite look in sculpture form. Maybe it's of algae and is molding like a plastic, or a Corian look etc. But upon a closer look, it sure doesn't have the look of sand! Rather that the sand is covering it and the polished smooth stone look in sculpture form seems to shine through, that is unless Nasa is playing tricks. Or this is a bit of their revealing process of a current creative civilization !