NASA astronaut Christina Koch snapped this image of Hurricane Dorian as the International Space Station (ISS) flew over the area more than 320 kilometres above the Earth.
It’s a serene picture, that gives no indication of the devastation below.
Originally published by Cosmos as Eye on the hurricane
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