.Within this June 26, 2023, photo extracted from the International Spaceport station, sunlight shines off the hassle-free waters of the Alabama River in a sensation referred to as sunglint. When capturing Earth, astronauts commonly benefit from sunglint's possibility to increase the comparison in between water surface areas and concerning land surfaces.In the 1960s, the Alabama River was clogged, generating Dannelly Tank (the large shining location at center left). Construction of the dam additionally reared water table upriver. This led to flooding at a number of aspects along the stream. These flooded zones are common of floodplains-- the poor, level regions immediately next to larger waterways. Within this image, disaster area seem like off-balance, bright shapes stretching out of the stream, like at Gee's Bend (facility bottom).Text Credit Rating: Justin Wilkinson.Graphic Credit Report: NASA/Woody Hoburg.