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Very round granules at Stonebriggs in Glen Torridon, Curiosity sol 2356

Very round granules at Stonebriggs in Glen Torridon, Curiosity sol 2356
Very round granules at Stonebriggs in Glen Torridon, Curiosity sol 2356 Curiosity took these images with its MAHLI camera on sol 2356 (24 March 2019). The grains are unusually round (though not uniquely so) and are in the coarse sand to granule size range, only a few millimeters in diameter. NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / Emily Lakdawalla