The Moon Illusion That's Stumping the Internet

It's likely the last thing you'd think could be confused for a piece of meat but Twitter users have been left stumped by an image comparing the moon to slices of ham.

After the northern hemisphere saw its first strawberry moon since 1967 last week, an image featuring a shot of the celestial rarity has left the internet scratching its head.

Twitter user Terakubo Mashiro tweeted four pictures: One of the moon, and three of slices of ham. From Japan, Terakubo accompanied his pictures with a caption which roughly translates to: "Only one in this includes the Strawberry Moon. All other ham."

この中に一つだけストロベリームーンが含まれます。

その他すべてハムです。 pic.twitter.com/J5o3CS6ZrO

— †┏┛寺窪┗┓† (@Terubou_Cos) June 20, 2016

His tweet has been shared more than 44,000 times and received 34,000 likes.

Eventually he revealed that the image at the top right was the moon, while the remaining three were indeed pieces of ham.

反転したり、色味変えたり、見た目加工してもなかなか似ないんです。
立体感のせいでしょうか。

月がハムに見えたのは、月が平面に見えるからで、それは月の砂が光を乱反射させる性質を持っているからなんだそうな。 pic.twitter.com/q6HVw8cedI

— †┏┛寺窪┗┓† (@Terubou_Cos) June 21, 2016

He then revealed that the image at the top left was in fact Jupiter.

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