Space Agency Shares Photo Of Mountain Range, All The Internet Sees Is A Cat
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) shared a photo of the Cape Breton Highlands recently, showing the oldest rocks in Nova Scotia. These are, according to a tweet by the organization, the remnants of the Appalachians—more than a billion years old.
While all this is interesting information in itself, what users on social media saw—and were more focused on—is the way the rocks look like a cat.
Specifically, a cat lying on its side with one paw outstretched to the heavens and beyond.
I see a cat extending its paw to grab something! I can see why someone else said a bulldog but it looks fluffy & bulldogs aren't fluffy!
— Susan Gildersleeve (@3with1strike) February 27, 2022
Later, the agency acknowledged the lookalike in a follow-up tweet, joking that perhaps the highlands should’ve been named Cat Breton instead of Cape Breton.
she’s serenading us pic.twitter.com/weBmGxv6X8
— ro (@ro_cketships) February 23, 2022
Originally, this photo was taken in April 2021 by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite belonging to the European Space Agency, and processed by Marcel Morin, a Lost Art Cartography artist. It has been described as a “hill shading image derived from provincial lidar elevation data” by the CSA.
But never mind that, of course, because it looks like a cat. Nature is truly a wondrous thing.
[via Futurism and CNET, image via Lost Art of Cartography]
