Well, technically it’s a brain photographed from space. Astronaut Chris Hadfield, current Commander of the International Space Station, snapped the photograph while orbiting over South America.
http://io9.com/5989277/words-to-live-by-chris-hadfields-advice-to-aspiring-astronauts
“I have no idea what this Brazilian outcrop looks like on the ground,” Hadfield tweeted, along with the picture (the latest in a long string of beautiful photographs that Hadfield has taken from aboard the ISS), “but from orbit, it’s a brain.”
Yes. Yes it is.
