The reason it looks so fake is because we're looking at the moon through the atmosphere, whereas that picture sees the moon without the obscuring effect provided by 200ish km of air, ozone and other such stuff.
If anything doesnt represent reality, it is the view of the moon we have from the surface. The astronauts are seeing it as it really is.
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