.In this particular June 26, 2023, photo extracted from the International Spaceport station, direct sunlight shines off the smooth waters of the Alabama River in a phenomenon called sunglint. When capturing The planet, rocketeers commonly make the most of sunglint's inclination to improve the comparison between water surfaces and also surrounding land surface areas.In the 1960s, the Alabama Stream was actually repressed, producing Dannelly Reservoir (the sizable shining region at facility left). Building and construction of the dam also reared water levels upriver. This resulted in flooding at several factors along the waterway. These disaster area are regular of floodplains-- the poor, level regions right away next to much larger rivers. Within this picture, flooded zones look like off-balance, bright designs expanding out of the stream, like at Gee's Bend (center bottom).Text Credit Scores: Justin Wilkinson.Image Credit: NASA/Woody Hoburg.