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A schematic of an inferior mirage, showing a) the unrefracted line of sight, b) the refracted line of sight and c) the apparent position of the refracted image. In an inferior mirage, the mirage image appears below the real object. The real object in an inferior mirage is the (blue) sky or any distant (therefore bluish) object in that same ...
Inferior mirage of comet C/2006 P1 McNaught Etruscan vase stage of inferior mirage sunset in Hawaii Omega Sun stage of inferior mirage sunset in Hawaii. Inferior mirage of astronomical objects is the most common mirage. Inferior mirage occurs when the surface of the Earth or the oceans produces a layer of hot air of lower density, just at the ...
In the lines, "the weary traveller sees / In desert or prairie vast, / Blue lakes, overhung with trees / That a pleasant shadow cast", because of the mention of blue lakes, it is clear that the author is actually describing not a Fata Morgana, but rather a common inferior or desert mirage. The 1886 drawing shown here of a "Fata Morgana" in a ...
Inferior‑mirage flash: Joule's "last glimpse"; oval, flattened below; lasts 1 or 2 seconds: Surface warmer than the overlying air: Close to sea level Mock‑mirage flash: Indentations seem to "pinch off" a thin, pointy strip from the upper rim of the Sun; lasts 1 or 2 seconds: Atmospheric inversion layer below eye level; surface colder than air
A mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to English via the French mirage, from the Latin mirare, meaning "to look at, to wonder at". This is the same root as for "mirror" and "to admire". Also, it has its roots in the Arabic mirage.
Looming of the Canadian coast as seen from Rochester, New York, on April 16, 1871. Looming is the most noticeable and most often observed of these refraction phenomena. It is an abnormally large refraction of the object that increases the apparent elevation of the distant objects and sometimes allows an observer to see objects that are located below the horizon under normal conditions.
That particular mirage is very interesting and birds make it even more plesant to see. This one that you believe "is more illustrative" is different type of mirage. It is much more common Inferior Mirage. The mirage in the offered picture is Mock Mirage. It is much more rarer type of mirage. Mbz1 20:50, 15 May 2007 (UTC) Oppose. Sorry Mbz1, but ...
Distorted image due to the mirage. The Novaya Zemlya effect is a polar mirage caused by high refraction of sunlight between atmospheric thermal layers.The effect gives the impression that the sun is rising earlier than it actually should, and depending on the meteorological situation, the effect will present the Sun as a line or a square—sometimes referred to as the rectangular sun—made up ...