.In this June 26, 2023, photo taken from the International Spaceport station, sun light polishes off the smooth waters of the Alabama Waterway in a phenomenon called sunglint. When capturing Planet, rocketeers typically make the most of sunglint's possibility to enhance the contrast in between water surfaces as well as surrounding property surface areas.In the 1960s, the Alabama River was actually obstructed, producing Dannelly Tank (the huge polishing place at facility left). Building of the dam additionally brought up water table upriver. This resulted in flooding at numerous aspects along the waterway. These disaster area are actually traditional of flood plains-- the low, standard places immediately close to bigger streams. In this photo, flooded zones seem like irregular, bright shapes stretching out of the stream, like at Gee's Bend (center bottom).Text Credit Report: Justin Wilkinson.Photo Credit History: NASA/Woody Hoburg.