.Within this June 26, 2023, image extracted from the International Space Station, sunshine polishes off the smooth waters of the Alabama River in a phenomenon called sunglint. When capturing on film Earth, astronauts usually make the most of sunglint's possibility to boost the comparison between water surfaces and also neighboring land surfaces.In the 1960s, the Alabama Stream was stopped up, developing Dannelly Storage tank (the huge polishing region at center left). Building and construction of the dam additionally increased water levels upriver. This resulted in flooding at a number of aspects along the stream. These disaster area are traditional of floodplains-- the poor, level regions immediately beside much larger streams. In this graphic, flooded zones seem like irregular, brilliant forms stretching off of the river, like at Gee's Bend (facility bottom).Text Debt: Justin Wilkinson.Photo Credit Report: NASA/Woody Hoburg.