.In this particular June 26, 2023, image drawn from the International Spaceport station, sunshine polishes off the soft waters of the Alabama River in a phenomenon known as sunglint. When photographing Earth, rocketeers commonly benefit from sunglint's tendency to raise the comparison between water areas as well as regarding property surfaces.In the 1960s, the Alabama Waterway was actually dammed, making Dannelly Tank (the large shining place at facility left). Building and construction of the dam also brought up water table upriver. This led to flooding at several factors along the waterway. These disaster area are common of flood plains-- the poor, level locations promptly beside much larger streams. Within this image, flooded zones look like uneven, bright designs expanding away from the waterway, like at Gee's Bend (center bottom).Text Credit Report: Justin Wilkinson.Picture Credit: NASA/Woody Hoburg.