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6 facts about mirages
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1. «Mistress' this mysterious phenomenon of the legend is a Fata Morgana, a mythical creature that lives on the seabed and cheat travelers ghostly phenomena. The complex phenomenon of mirage with a sharp distortion of the form of objects, too, are called Fata Morgana.
2. Mirage - Optical phenomenon, they occur in the atmosphere, in fact, a reflection of the light between the layers of air of different density. There are a mirage, for example, the image of a puddle on the road or in the field, desert, and there are complex -huge city hanging in the sky.
3. Mirages people saw in ancient times. The most colorful in the history of mirages mirages described Palestine, seen by the Crusaders. And the Egyptians believed that a mirage is the image of what the world is no longer what once existed and disappeared from the face of the earth.
4. In the mountains, very rarely, at the confluence of certain conditions, you can see the "distorted himself" at a fairly close range. The reason for this phenomenon is the presence in the air "standing" water vapor.
5. It is interesting that the most vivid and clear visions do not occur in the desert, as is commonly believed, and in extreme cold - in Alaska. There's even created a society for the study of this phenomenon, which captures all the mirages in a special journal.
6. In physics, the phenomenon is known as refraction, the process of bending of light rays from the warmer toward colder. It happens like this: the rays of light from the sky go to the ground and then bent, starting from the surface of the eye. It turns out that, formally, we can see the sky, but much lower than it actually is. A motion effects and spillovers caused by heterogeneity warm currents coming from the warm surface.
Source: www.i-fakt.ru
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