A supermoon shone down over Greece on Saturday.
The massive full lunar appearance happens
several times in the year and is down to the
moon's proximity to the earth - making it
appear much larger and brighter than usual.
Scientists call them "perigee moons" and at
its closest, it was about 353,000 kilometres
from our planet.
The supermoon lit up the sky in many places
around the world. This one shows it rising
over houses in Spain. While this was the view
in Las Vegas as the moon was setting towards
the western skies of Nevada.
The scene was breathtaking as it hovered over
the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon on the
southern coast of mainland Greece, some 69
kilometres from Athens.
Two more such moons are expected to appear
in the next few months - one on August the
10th and another on September the 9th.
