Since 1995, each day, NASA features a different image or photograph of the universe, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Browsing through the archive, one can have a look at Greece, as seen from NASA’s space station.

In this picture, shot in 2010, (copyright by Chris Kotsiopoulos) the reader is informed that: “it may appear to be day, but it is night. Those wondrous orange streaks may appear to be rays from the setting Sun, but they are actually thin clouds, illuminated by the Moon as they quickly streaked toward the distant horizon.

The thick clouds on the far left may appear to have many layers, but actually they are just a few simple clouds captured on numerous separate exposures. The time lapse image sequence was taken over two hours, in Sounio.

What about the building in the foreground? It may appear to be a famous ancient structure, but it's actually a small deserted church built only last century.”

See also: NASA video - An Olympic moment in space (2013, Cosmonauts conducted a spacewalk displaying the Olympic torch that lit the Olympic flame in Sochi, Russia, as part of the torch relay that began in Olympia, Greece, in November).