No, the lake didn't suddenly shrink, nor did the city beyond the horizon teleport closer. The illusion is called a "superior mirage" — a phenomenon where shifting temperatures over the water bends ...

Studying the formation of a mirage, a natural phenomenon that appears in the desert, Mater simulated the bending of light ...

UTO, Kumamoto Prefecture--A high school science club here enlisted the help of local fishermen to reproduce a rare type of atmospheric optical phenomenon ... as the mirage is called, as it had ...