The most advanced pictures of the moon didn’t come from NASA, they were taken and assembled from over 81,000 images taken over 4 days by Iraq-based photographer Darya Kawa Murza.
Darya describes this not only as his most intricately detailed lunar photograph to date, but also the sharpest and most vivid he has ever produced. The project demanded four straight days of nonstop observation and imaging, yielding more than 81,000 individual frames. These were meticulously aligned and combined into a single 708 GB file boasting 159.7 megapixels. The resulting ultra-high-resolution portrait captures the Moon’s surface with breathtaking precision, exposing craters and rugged terrain at a level of clarity never seen before. To highlight the full complexity of the lunar landscape, Darya incorporated data from four distinct phases—full moon, new moon, and others—plus the shadowed regions, seamlessly blending them into one comprehensive view.
The moon is much more colorful than we are used to seeing. The Earth’s atmosphere limits our ability to see the colors of the moon.