We swim into the pixels of this NASA picture of the Bight of Acklins. This lagoon takes a bite out of Acklins Island, one of the Bahamas.

The bay separates two islands—Crooked Island and Acklins Island. On both islands there are long, smooth beaches and limestone caves surrounding the remnants of abandoned cotton plantations.

We are looking almost straight down, nearly vertical, as our satellite passes overhead.

In the warm, shallow water below, we see light blues and greens, hinting at many small sand banks, channels, shoals, grassy areas, and algal reefs. But just outside the islands, we can see a sudden dropoff to depths of more than 1000 feet, indicated by the dark blues.

But the picture is an illusion, built out of a thousand tiny pixels, processed and rebuilt to imitate what we might actually see, if we were riding the satellite. I decompose to see the beauty of the data within the image.

Source: NASA, Earth from Space, Photo #: STS41B-39-2159 Date: Feb. 1984

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Collections/EarthFromSpace/photoinfo.pl?PHOTO=STS41B-39-2159

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