Space

Sunglint on the Alabama Stream

.Within this June 26, 2023, picture drawn from the International Spaceport station, sunshine polishes off the hassle-free waters of the Alabama Stream in a phenomenon known as sunglint. When capturing on film The planet, rocketeers typically make use of sunglint's possibility to improve the contrast between water surface areas and neighboring land surface areas.In the 1960s, the Alabama Stream was repressed, generating Dannelly Reservoir (the big polishing place at center left). Building and construction of the dam additionally raised water table upriver. This resulted in flooding at a number of points along the stream. These flooded zones are actually traditional of floodplains-- the poor, level areas quickly next to much larger waterways. Within this picture, disaster area look like rough, intense designs stretching off of the stream, like at Gee's Bend (center base).Text Credit Rating: Justin Wilkinson.Graphic Credit: NASA/Woody Hoburg.