Fata morgana mirage
Taken by Mila Zinkova on November 6, 2013 @
Santa Cruz, California, USA
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Camera Used: Canon Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
Exposure Time: 1/640
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 100
Date Taken: 2013:11:06 17:11:13
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Fata Morgana, a complex type of superior mirage likes to fool people around.In 1906 a famous polar explorer Robert Peary gave the name Crocker Land to a land mass which he believed he saw in the distance, northwest from the highest point of Cape Thomas Hubbard. A few years later an expedition was sent to find the mysterious land. It has been never found. The land was a mirage, Fata Morgana. Yesterday, when I was photographing Fata Morgana display at Monterey Bay I overheard a lady asking her companion, if they are going to drive over that bridge that was seen on the other side of the Bay.
I thought to myself they'd better not. In some places "the bridge" was hanging up in the air, and was going to nowhere, not to say that its construction was changing just n front of our eyes. Once again Fata Morgana with its bizarre landscapes played a joke of an unsuspected person.
The images were sent to Dr. Andrew Young. He writes:
"In old published reports of such displays, the features like this
are variously called "Roman aqueducts" or "arches" or "tunnels".
The "arches", of course, as the inverted images of valleys between hills
on the far shore.
These are certainly fine examples, and the pronounced vertical striations
are typical of Fata Morgana displays."
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