Tuesday 1 November 2011

Fata Morgana

Fata Morgana is a funny name for a funny thing that happens a lot here in Antarctica. It is the name for a mirage. A mirage is something you see that's not really there. Light plays a trick so that what you see or what a camera takes a picture of is bent or stretched. This picture of a mountain by where I live down here looks like it has a cliff on the bottom of it, but that cliff is not really there; it's a mirage. Isn't that amazing?

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