Mirage is one of the "unusual and weird phenomena of the atmosphere.

Sometimes in the mountains of the so-called Breaux kenskoe vision. This is a very rare kind of mirage. At sunrise or sunset, suddenly appears magnified many times the image of a person or animal. Most often, this vision is seen in Germany at Mount Brocken. Scientists share a mirage on the top and bottom. Inferior mirage usually occurs against the backdrop of a red-hot heat of the sand. Usually it is manifested in the form of water surface, rocks, shrubs, trees, which are reflected in the water. Exhausted heat travelers flock to the water, but she suddenly disappears and appears as, or detached, as a man approaching a mirage. In the Middle Ages in the deserts of whole caravans were killed, deceived by a mirage. Inferior mirage, very rarely, can be seen in mid-latitudes. With the rapid movement of hot in the sun a paved road, fenced in the forest areas in front of his man can suddenly appear sparkling water surface. This vision does not disappear until until the car will pass forest plantations. "Water" immediately disappears. Upper mirage usually appears on items located near the horizon. In the sky above them is they appear strongly distorted. In a telescope can distinguish the individual parts of the image, but in fact the subject is at a distance of 50 kilometers. Can produce an artificial mirage. For this we must take a long metal plate and heat it. Then pick it up at eye level and look at what a small object. It is possible that you will see a reverse image of the object. In this case, you will see inferior mirage. But suddenly you will want to get the upper mirage. To do this, pour in the tank leach, and on top a little water. Then you need to send it through an aquarium, iodine slight slope upward, the light beam. If you do it right, you get a double image of the object on which fell the light beam. One day near the eastern coast of Korea on the background of a completely blank disc, the sun emerged ridge of high mountains. Most likely, this was a reflection of the distant mountains that rise on the Japanese islands.