The author of this photo is Ildar Ibatullin from Kyiv. He is 19 years old, a student of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, who has been photographing the starry sky and objects on Earth for some time.
Based on his own color map of the Moon and the NASA LOLA elevation map, the author has created an image of the Moon with several dozen times higher contrast of the relief.
This image allows us to see not only the dependence of the color on the rock, but also on the height of the relief. It can be seen that the lowlands are seas of frozen basalt lava that have a dark saturated color (the color is determined by fluctuations in the content of iron oxide and titanium oxide), and the highlands are light minerals (white, beige, light blue). Relatively fresh highlands or craters are white or light blue.
This image should be considered a computer generated graphic, not an astrophoto. Created in Blender, without the help of AI.