'Be on beach or gawk at it from space?’: NASA asks sharing pic of Andros Island from ISS

On December 5, NASA shared stunning satellite imry of a deep oceanic trench in Bahamas and  islands of Andros and nearby New Providence. Captured by Astronaut Soichi guchi, NASA's breathtaking imry featured  largest island in Bahamas,  historic archipelago, that consisted of hundreds of small islets and three major islands: rth Andros, Mangrove Cay, and South Andros. Taking to its official Instagram handle, administration wrote, "Would you rar be on beach or would you rar gawk at it from ? For some, it’s a tough choice," as it shared rare im of island form astronauts' perspective who is currently living and working aboard International Station. 

"Every 90 minutes, station completes one orbit around Earth. Because Earth rotates below m while y orbit, crew get to see most of ir beautiful blue marble of a planet from unique vant point of ," NASA explained. "By photographing Earth from about 250 miles above surface, astronauts can record phemena such as storms in real-time, and even provide input to ground teams," it added. Located within  Bahamas, island is politically considered a single piece of land. However,  island has an area greater than all or 700 Bahamian islands combined. Large fluffy clouds were seen sailing above deep blue mangrove estuaries and tidal swamplands, which was captured by NASA from .

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'Out of this world' photograph

Mesmerised at beauty of island, internet could t help but admire  picture. "Would be pretty cool to watch Miami’s beautiful beaches from ," one suggested. "This photo is out of this world," ar opined. "How you can take pictures like that," ar asked, awestruck at im.". I always dreamed of standing in Moon so that I could look back at Earth and admire its beauty," on eor said. Internet users expressed astonisment at appearance of estuaries on archaepalago in . 

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