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Stunning new pictures offer the most in-depth views yet of the moon's rugged surface, revealing every crevice in incredible details.
The enhanced photographs show every mountain, crater and cave in the lunar landscape - making the moon more accessible to the human eye than ever before.
They were taken by photographer Andrew McCarthy, better known to his Instagram followers as @cosmic_background, who painstakingly created the unique effect using 200,000 separate images.
He used height data provided by Nasa and 3D software to show the differences between the lunar sea and the lunar highlands.
Mr McCarthy, from Arizona, USA, said: 'By exaggerating the elevation of features on the moon, you can really show off how different the maria is relative to the highlands. The heavily cratered highlands seem incredibly treacherous compared to the smooth basalt in the lunar seas.
A huge 200 megapixel image of the moon - showing the most realistic surface of the moon
