A wild moon photo is blowing up online after people noticed something hilarious… it looks like Super Mario is on the Moon.
The colorful image, often (incorrectly) linked to NASA’s Artemis II mission, was actually taken from Earth by photographer Ildar Ibatullin. He enhanced the colors to highlight the Moon’s mineral makeup, not to hide a Nintendo Easter egg.
What people are seeing is a classic case of pareidolia, where your brain finds familiar shapes in random patterns. In reality, the “Mario” shape is just lunar regions like Mare Tranquillitatis and Mare Serenitatis.
Still, once you see it… good luck unseeing it.