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Various kinds of mirages in one location taken over the course of six minutes, not shown in chronological order.[a]
A mirage is a naturally-occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays bend via refraction to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky.[1] The word comes to English via the French (se) mirer, from the Latin mirari, meaning "to look at, to wonder at".[2]
Mirages can be categorized as "inferior" (meaning lower), "superior" (meaning higher) and "Fata Morgana", one kind of superior mirage consisting of a series of unusually elaborate, vertically stacked images, which form one rapidly-changing mirage.
In contrast to a hallucination, a mirage is a real optical phenomenon that can be captured on camera, since light rays are actually refracted to form the false image at the observer's location. What the image appears to represent, however, is determined by the interpretive faculties of the human mind. For example, inferior images on land are very easily mistaken for the reflections from a small body of water.
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^Lynch, Livingston & Livingston 2001.
^"Definition of Mirage". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
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