.In this June 26, 2023, photo extracted from the International Spaceport station, sunlight polishes off the soft waters of the Alabama Waterway in a phenomenon referred to as sunglint. When photographing Planet, rocketeers commonly make the most of sunglint's propensity to improve the comparison between water surface areas as well as regarding land surfaces.In the 1960s, the Alabama Stream was obstructed, generating Dannelly Reservoir (the large polishing place at facility left). Building of the dam additionally raised water table upriver. This led to flooding at many factors along the waterway. These flooded zones are traditional of floodplains-- the poor, flat places immediately beside much larger rivers. Within this graphic, disaster area seem like off-balance, bright designs prolonging far from the river, like at Gee's Bend (center bottom).Text Credit Scores: Justin Wilkinson.Image Credit History: NASA/Woody Hoburg.