Explanation text ~ English

FATAMORGANA : The Superior Mirage

Fatamorgana on the road

Fatamorgana is an optical phenomenon, can be seen on land or at sea, in polar regions or in desert. This kind of mirage can be involve almost any kind of distant object, including such things as boats, islands and cost line.

A fatamorgana occurs because the land in the afternoon when the sun shining, make the land very hot. Then the hot weather will radiate it until the weather between the land become more hot. That hot weather will reflected the shadow of the blue sky like a pond. In there, the hot weather is like a mirror. When our eyes look the rays, we can see bluish appear from the land.

Sequence image of fatamorgana on Farallon Archipelago

 We can see fatamorgana in the film or comic in deserts there is be more likely a lake or water pond with coconut tree around it (we call it as an oase). Shadow from fatamorgana can be rough draught, upside down, or wavy.

Painting on a book on 19th century about fatamorgana

A painting (1844) entitled "The Fata Morgana, As Observed In The Harbour Of Messina"

Fatamorgana on desert

Fatamorgana on polar regions

Fatamorgana on comic

How Fatamorgana happen ?

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