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It's probably just the equator.

Good one :)

Looks like two pictures that have been pasted together?

Seems to me the image is a composite of two different picures and not of the same scale either.

Look how the cloud (or whatever it is) on the right is broken. The halves don't line up.

A sensor artifact most probably. Should have been cleaned up before publishing.

It also should have been in focus.

Suspicious like "an artifact or defect in the camera" or "poorly spliced images" or suspicious like "they're faking the mission"? Just want to know how much tinfoil to bring to the discussion.