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Canada blatantly Photoshopped U.S. photos in order to slap a non-existent Canadian logo on the International Space Station, a blog post by the Economist revealed Friday.

The photo in question depicts U.S. astronaut Stephen K. Robinson perched on the end of the Canadarm2 during a 2005 spacewalk on the International Space Station.

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In official Canadian versions of the photo, however, the Government of Canada logo has been awkwardly overlaid on a portion of the Canadarm that, in reality, is blank.

Close inspection reveals the logo to have obviously been inserted digitally: The photo’s editor, whoever they are, merely superimposed the logo without paying much heed to shading, perspective or to aligning the logo with the uneven fabric surface of the Canadarm.

Any skilled graphic designer could deliver a more seamless result in about five minutes, as per National Post estimates.

Nevertheless, the altered photograph crops up in a variety of Government of Canada materials, including a Canadian Space Agency Tumblr page, an introductory website for new Canadian immigrants and even a January Tweet by Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen.