Nowadays, satellites in the sky were equipped with weak AI that analyzed image data in real time as they took pictures, marking special locations and unusual terrain before passing them on for human review, thereby reducing the workload.
As for people appearing on the moon, that had indeed happened before—but those had been astronauts, making brief lunar landings before hurriedly returning, unable to remain on the moon for long.
Thus, when the AI reported that it had photographed a person on the moon, the first thought that came to the space agency researcher's mind was that some country had secretly landed on the moon again. His second thought was that they had been so careless as to appear beneath a satellite's orbit.
It was only when he opened the photo transmitted by the intelligent system and saw the person waving on the lunar surface that he failed to react at first. Preconceptions had taken hold—having someone on the moon somehow did not seem like much of an issue.
Several whole seconds passed before he realized: this was the moon, not a film set.
Where was his spacesuit?!
Then he looked again. Wait, why did this man look so much like their own Mythology?
No, it seemed to be him.
When had he gone to space?!
Then it was fine...
No, this seemed to be an even bigger problem.
Mythology was indeed powerful. Even if cast into the vacuum of space, he would not die for a while. As for cosmic radiation, it was certainly fatal to ordinary people, but for Mythology, even intense nuclear radiation could not cause pathological changes.
But Mythology was not a god in the end. He still needed to breathe and could not survive for long without oxygen.
Beyond that, the more crucial question was: how