How can things like sand seem so homogenous, but under a microscope every grain look so distinct?

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I saw a picture of sand under a microscope. It looked like beautiful tiny shells and even little starfish. But sand looks like brown sugar to me… why is it so similar looking in a huge group? Are all of the beautiful colors seen under the microscope some special sort of sand they are only using for photography?

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It’s in the same way as if you were to look up at the stars. Every bright sphere may look white to some extent, but looking closely, you can see that they have much more color to them. You don’t notice Mars being red or the colors on Jupiter. The planets, similar to sand, have distinct features that are too hard to point out at a distance.

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