This isn't a photo from Artemis II – it's an Unreal Engine 5 scene made with real NASA data

Unreal Engine 5 render of the moon's surface.

NASA's Artemis II mission has the world obsessed with the moon again this week. People have been wowed by the iPhone moon photos taken by astronauts, while others think they've spotted Super Mario twerking on the moon in a bizarre optical illusion.

But photography isn't the only way that people are capturing the beauty of our nearest celestial neighbour. A 3D visualisation expert at Epic Games has used real NASA data to recreate the lunar surface in a stunning piece of digital art made in the real-time 3D creation platform Unreal Engine 5.