.Within this June 26, 2023, picture extracted from the International Spaceport station, sunlight polishes off the soft waters of the Alabama Stream in a sensation called sunglint. When capturing Earth, astronauts usually take advantage of sunglint's propensity to raise the contrast between water areas as well as neighboring land surface areas.In the 1960s, the Alabama Stream was actually repressed, making Dannelly Storage tank (the sizable shining area at facility left). Construction of the dam likewise increased water levels upriver. This led to flooding at a number of aspects along the stream. These flooded zones are traditional of floodplains-- the low, level locations immediately next to larger rivers. Within this photo, disaster area look like rough, vivid shapes extending out of the stream, like at Gee's Bend (center base).Text Credit: Justin Wilkinson.Image Credit Rating: NASA/Woody Hoburg.