Interesting facts about the mirage Bashny.Net

A selection of interesting facts about the mirage.

Mirages come in several forms: lake, or bottom; top (they occur directly in the sky), or mirages distance vision; side mirages.
A more complex form of mirage called "Fata Morgana»




Lower (Ozerny) mirage. Inferior mirages occur mainly in cases where the layers of the surface air (for example, in the desert), warmed up so that the rays of light emanating from objects much distorted.



The victims most often mirages are the caravans in the desert Erg al-Rawi in northern Africa. Before people "personally" at a distance of 2-3 kilometers oases appear to them in fact no less than 700 kilometers



Upper mirage (mirage distance vision)

The air is heated by the Earth's surface, and the height of its temperature falls. However, if a layer of cool air is warmer (brought by, for example, southern wind) and strongly rarefied air layer, and the transition between them is quite sharp, the refraction is greatly enhanced. Rays of light coming from the objects in the world, describe the similarity of the arc and back down, sometimes for tens, even hundreds of kilometers from its source. Then there is "raising the horizon," or upper mirage.



Residents of the French Riviera on a clear morning is not seen on the horizon of the Mediterranean Sea, where the water is drained from the air, from the sea rises a chain of the Corsican mountains, to which the Côte d'Azur about two hundred kilometers.



Fata Morgana - a complex optical phenomena in the atmosphere, which consists of several forms of mirages, in which distant objects are seen repeatedly and with a variety of distortions. To this end, the most mysterious kind of mirage convincing explanation has yet been found. But there are many theories.