Description of the mirage. Mirages - mysteries of nature (9 photos)
Today, almost any Internet user will tell you what the concept of ICQ means. However, the fact that a user spends a lot of time chatting every day does not mean that he has a perfect understanding of the ICQ instant messaging client.
For example, we can safely say that half of the active regulars of ICQ have no idea what exactly the status of their individual number is in ICQ.
Moreover, they can’t even imagine why they might need it. And completely in vain. Certain statuses help protect your ICQ from hacking and return your UIN if it was stolen by attackers.
The first status we will look at is called invisible. This word can be translated into Russian as “invisible”.
If you explain in simple words, then this status is given to such invisible numbers that the ICQ system search cannot detect. They are also called “invisas”.
It is believed that when purchased in a store, such an invisible number is more reliable and does not give its owner any reason to worry that he will ever be former owner will take it away from you by recovering your icq password by mail, test question or mobile phone.
It is clear that the price for such numbers when purchased is slightly higher than for ordinary ones.
Checking ICQ invisible status
If at some point you want to check your ICQ number for visa, it won’t be difficult at all.
You just need to log into your client, activate the search window and enter the ICQ number that you want to check for inviz. That is, in this case, your own number.
If, after clicking on the “Search” or “Search” button, the system returned the response “Number not found,” we can safely say that it has invisible status.
One more subtlety should be kept in mind, and you will probably be interested in the following information.
After the Russian investment group Mail.Ru acquired the ICQ service, invisible numbers lost the ability to log in through the official website.
Let's say, after the user has purchased an ICQ number from invisible status, he, one fine day, wanted to change his password. To do this, he should go to the official website icq.com and try to log in.
And then the system displays a message: Incorrect ICQ UIN, email address or password. Please fill out the form again .
It is clear that this is followed by a slight panic, an attempt to check your mailbox again, accusing the sellers of fraud and similar unnecessary gestures.
However, it is not. It’s just that his status is such that he cannot authorize himself in an official way.
People have seen mirages since ancient times, about which many legends have been preserved. On the one hand, it is difficult to find a person who, at least once in his life, has not seen the simplest mirage - a blue lake on a hot highway. On the other hand, thousands of people have observed literally hanging cities, quaint castles and even entire armies in the sky, but here experts have no explanation for this natural phenomenon.
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1. Mirages come in several types: lake, or lower; upper (they appear directly in the sky) or distant vision mirages; lateral mirages. More complex look The mirage is called "Fata Morgana"
2. Lower (lake) mirage. Inferior mirages occur primarily in cases where the layers of air near the surface of the Earth (for example, in a desert) are so heated that the rays of light emanating from objects are strongly bent.
3. Caravans in the Erg-er-Ravi desert in North Africa are especially often victims of mirages. People see oases “with their own eyes” at a distance of 2-3 kilometers, which are actually no less than 700 kilometers away.
4. Superior mirage (distant vision mirage). The air is heated from the Earth's surface, and its temperature drops with height. However, if above the layer of cool air there is a warmer (brought, for example, by southern winds) and very rarefied air layer, and the transition between them is quite sharp, then the refraction increases significantly. Rays of light coming from objects on Earth describe something like an arc and return down, sometimes tens, even hundreds of kilometers from their source. Then a “raising of the horizon” or superior mirage is observed.
5. Residents Cote d'Azur France clear morning more than once we saw it on the horizon Mediterranean Sea, where the water merges with the sky, the chain of Corsican mountains rises from the sea, about two hundred kilometers from the Cote d'Azur.
6. Fata Morgana - difficult optical phenomenon in the atmosphere, consisting of several forms of mirages, in which distant objects are visible repeatedly and with various distortions. No convincing explanation has yet been found for this most mysterious type of mirage. But, there are many theories.
9. In the summer, in hot weather When the sun is shining brightly, on the highway you can see puddles in the distance reflecting the sky. In fact, there are no puddles: it’s a visual illusion, a mirage!
The water surface of the lake reflects light rays and creates an image of coastal vegetation. A layer of air can also reflect light rays and create an inverted image of a landscape that is very far away. This happens in hot weather: heated air rises and comes into contact with a cold layer of air.
The contact surface, like a mirror, reflects the lush vegetation of an oasis in the waterless desert, which is located very far away. Likewise, on the highway, the sky is reflected in puddles that are not really there.
10. Thousands of tourists and local residents witnessed a mirage that lasted for four hours in Penglai city east coast China. The fogs created an image of the city, with modern high-rise buildings, wide city streets and noisy cars. It rained for two days in the city of Penglai before this rare weather event occurred.
11. And this mirage appeared off the coast of the Chinese resort island of Hainan.
The mirage is reported to have arisen due to an abnormal high temperature air that settled on the island, usually unusual for this time of year.
And in the video below you will see a whole ghost town, which appeared for a while on east coast China.
Since childhood I have been interested in mysterious natural phenomena. One of them is mirages. After all, it’s just magic to see something that doesn’t exist or is hundreds of kilometers away from the observer. Fabulous, isn't it? As a child, everything seems so simple. Mirage is small miracle. By the way, it’s not only children who think this way. After reading a large number of various articles, I made a small discovery for myself. It turns out that people have seen mirages since ancient times. And they explained them by the ordinary intervention of gods or spirits. This information is still kept in various legends.
The crusaders, who went with their good purpose to Palestine, described the mirages especially colorfully and vividly. But, unfortunately, no one believed them. Well, in those days they really loved to tell tales about the wonders of the East.
Even before the Crusaders, mirages were observed, and quite often, by residents Ancient Egypt. They believed that mirages were nothing more than the ghost of a country that had disappeared many hundreds of years ago. According to this legend, every place on earth has its own soul. And so the soul of the lost country wandered across the vast Egyptian deserts, trying to find peace.
Yes, the ancients believed in miracles. It turns out that everything is much simpler and the intervention of otherworldly forces is not necessary for the occurrence of mirages. In a purely scientific definition, a mirage (French mirage - literally visibility) is nothing more than an optical phenomenon in the atmosphere, due to which images of objects appear in the visibility zone, which, when normal conditions hidden from observation.
That is, a mirage is nothing more than a play of light rays. The fact is that in the desert the earth warms up very much. But at the same time, the air temperature above the ground at different distances from it varies greatly. For example, the temperature of the air layer ten centimeters above ground level is 30-50 degrees less than the surface temperature.
All laws of physics say: light propagates in a homogeneous medium in a straight line. However, with such extreme conditions, the law does not apply. What's going on? The rays simply begin to refract at such temperature differences, and generally begin to be reflected near the ground, creating illusions that we are accustomed to calling mirages. That is, the air near the surface becomes a mirror.
Although mirages are usually associated with deserts, they can often be observed above the water surface, in the mountains, and sometimes even in major cities. In other words, wherever sudden changes in temperature occur, you can observe these fabulous pictures.
This phenomenon is quite common. For example, in the most great desert On our planet, about 160 thousand mirages are observed annually.
How did the scientific observation of mirages develop?
The first and honorable place can be given to Monsieur Gaspard Monge. This man, in 1799, was the first to give a written explanation of this phenomenon, which is quite similar to the modern one. He took part in the Egyptian campaign of the famous commander Napoleon Bonaparte. The participants of this expedition walked in the direction of the Nile. The monotonous and rather dull appearance of the plains was broken only occasionally by small hills, on which villages were sometimes visible.
And then one day the soldiers noticed that periodically the plains seemed to be flooded with water, and the villages seemed to them like small islands. Moreover, what especially amazed the people from the expedition was that under each of these islands there was a mirror image of it, and the sky was also reflected.
Naturally, as we got closer, the mirage dissipated. Naturally, the soldiers interpreted this as the machinations of enemies and foreign gods. And Monsieur Monge explained everything with scientific point sight, which incomparably helped Bonaparte restore order in the ranks.
The commander of the Baffin ship undoubtedly deserved second place. Significant event happened back in 1820. In the ship's log he described most wonderful city, in which great amount ancient castles and temples. Wherein this phenomenon was not only recorded, but also in more detail sketched by the same captain. Naturally, his evidence was not confirmed.
Third place can be given to the residents of a small island in the north of England. In 1840, they saw magnificent white buildings in the skies. They had never seen anything like this and decided that this was the famous crystal city inhabited by the Finn people. By the way, it is interesting that this vision was repeated 17 years later for three hours.
It is very interesting that although mirages are considered children of deserts, Alaska has long been recognized as the undisputed leader in their occurrence. The colder it is, the clearer and more beautiful the observed mirage.
No matter how common this phenomenon is, it is very difficult to study. Why? Yes, everything is very simple. No one knows where and when he will appear, what he will be like and how long he will live.
After many different records about mirages appeared, naturally, they had to be classified. It turned out that, despite all their diversity, it was possible to identify only six types of mirages: lower (lake), upper (appearing in the sky), side, “Fata Morgana”, ghost mirages and werewolf mirages.
A more complex type of mirage is called " Fata Morgana". No explanation has yet been found for it. It is customary to refer to a variety of mirages as Polar Lights or werewolf mirages.
Lower (lake) mirage.
These are the most common mirages. They got their name because of the places where they originated. As you probably already guessed, Bonaparte’s expedition saw exactly them. They are observed on the surface of the earth and water (it’s not for nothing that their second name is “lake”).
This type of mirage is as simple in origin as the previous type. However, such mirages are much more diverse and beautiful.
They appear in the air. The most fascinating of them are the famous ghost towns. It is very interesting that they usually represent images of objects - cities, mountains, islands - that are located many thousands of kilometers away.
Side mirages
They appear near vertical surfaces that are strongly heated by the sun. It can be rocky shores sea or lake, when the shore is already illuminated by the Sun, and the surface of the water and the air above it are still cold. This type of mirage is very common occurrence Lake Geneva.
Fata Morgana
Fata Morgana is the most complex type of mirages. It is a combination of several forms of mirages. At the same time, the objects that the mirage depicts are magnified many times over and are quite distorted.
Interestingly, this type of mirage got its name from Morgana, the sister of the famous Arthur. She allegedly took offense at Lancelot for rejecting her. To spite him, she settled in underwater world and began to take revenge on all men, deceiving them with phantasmal visions
TO Fata Morgana can be attributed to numerous “ flying dutchmen “, which are still seen by sailors.
They usually show ships that are hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away from observers.
Mirages-ghosts or mirages-werewolves.
They produce a special psychological effect on their victims. Some visions baffle modern scientists too. For example, a French colonial detachment crossed the Algerian desert. Not far away they saw a flock of flamingos. But as soon as they crossed the border of the mirage, instead of two legs, each had four. A real Arabian horseman in white.
The detachment commander, naturally, was frightened and sent a scout to check what kind of people were in the desert. When the soldier got into the mirage zone, he figured it all out. But the metamorphoses that happened to him, observed by his comrades, plunged them into shock. His horse's legs became so long that he seemed to be sitting on a fantastic monster.
Perhaps there is nothing more to say about the types of mirages.
I would like to add that although this is an extremely beautiful and mysterious sight, it is also very dangerous. I kill mirages and drive my victims crazy. This is especially true for desert mirages. And the explanation of this phenomenon does not make the fate of travelers easier.
However, people are trying to fight this. They create special guides that indicate the places where mirages most often appear, and sometimes their forms.
Well, that seems to be it. By the way, mirages get laboratory conditions. Another mystery, I hope, solved. Thank you for your attention.
Mirage means "appearance" in French and is an optical phenomenon in the atmosphere that makes visible objects, which are actually located far from the observation location, and display them in a distorted form or create a virtual image. This is one of the most interesting and amazing riddles nature. Let's find out more about them.
People have seen mirages since ancient times, about which many legends have been preserved. On the one hand, it is difficult to find a person who, at least once in his life, has not seen the simplest mirage - a blue lake on a hot highway. On the other hand, thousands of people have observed literally hanging cities, quaint castles and even entire armies in the sky, but here experts have no explanation for this natural phenomenon.
Mirages come in several types: lake, or lower; upper (they appear directly in the sky) or distant vision mirages; lateral mirages. A more complex type of mirage is called Fata Morgana.
Lower (lake) mirage. Inferior mirages occur primarily in cases where the layers of air near the surface of the Earth (for example, in a desert) are so heated that the rays of light emanating from objects are strongly bent.
Caravans in the Erg-er-Ravi desert in North Africa are especially often victims of mirages. People see oases “with their own eyes” at a distance of 2-3 kilometers, which in reality are at least 700 kilometers away
Superior mirage (distant vision mirage) The air is heated from the Earth's surface, and its temperature drops with altitude. However, if above the layer of cool air there is a warmer (brought, for example, by southern winds) and very rarefied air layer, and the transition between them is quite sharp, then the refraction increases significantly. Rays of light coming from objects on Earth describe something like an arc and return down, sometimes tens, even hundreds of kilometers from their source. Then a “raising of the horizon” or superior mirage is observed.
On a clear morning, residents of the Côte d'Azur of France have seen more than once how, on the horizon of the Mediterranean Sea, where the water merges with the sky, the chain of Corsican mountains rises from the sea, about two hundred kilometers from the Côte d'Azur.
Fata Morgana is a complex optical phenomenon in the atmosphere, consisting of several forms of mirages, in which distant objects are visible repeatedly and with various distortions. No convincing explanation has yet been found for this most mysterious type of mirage. But, there are many theories.
People have seen mirages since ancient times, about which many legends have been preserved.
On the one hand, it is difficult to find a person who, at least once in his life, has not seen the simplest mirage - a blue lake on a hot highway. On the other hand, thousands of people have observed literally hanging cities, quaint castles and even entire armies in the sky, but here experts have no explanation for this natural phenomenon.
1. Mirages come in several types: lake, or lower; upper (they appear directly in the sky) or distant vision mirages; lateral mirages. A more complex type of mirage is called Fata Morgana.
2.Lower (lake) mirage. Inferior mirages occur primarily in cases where the layers of air near the surface of the Earth (for example, in a desert) are so heated that the rays of light emanating from objects are strongly bent. 3.Caravans in the Erg-er-Ravi desert are especially often victims of mirages. which is in North Africa. People see oases “with their own eyes” at a distance of 2-3 kilometers, which are actually no less than 700 kilometers away.
4. Superior mirage (distance vision mirage). The air is heated from the Earth's surface, and its temperature drops with height. However, if above the layer of cool air there is a warmer (brought, for example, by southern winds) and very rarefied air layer, and the transition between them is quite sharp, then the refraction increases significantly. Rays of light coming from objects on Earth describe something like an arc and return down, sometimes tens, even hundreds of kilometers from their source. Then a “raising of the horizon” or superior mirage is observed.
5. On a clear morning, residents of the Cote d'Azur of France have seen more than once how on the horizon of the Mediterranean Sea, where the water merges with the sky, the chain of Corsican mountains rises from the sea, which is about two hundred kilometers from the Cote d'Azur.
6. Fata Morgana is a complex optical phenomenon in the atmosphere, consisting of several forms of mirages, in which distant objects are visible repeatedly and with various distortions. No convincing explanation has yet been found for this most mysterious type of mirage. But, there are many theories.
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9. In summer, in hot weather, When the sun is shining brightly, you can see puddles on the highway in the distance reflecting the sky. In fact, there are no puddles: it’s a visual illusion, a mirage!
The water surface of the lake reflects light rays and creates an image of coastal vegetation. A layer of air can also reflect light rays and create an inverted image of a landscape that is very far away. This happens in hot weather: heated air rises upward and comes into contact with a cold layer of air. The contact surface, like a mirror, reflects the lush vegetation of an oasis in the arid desert, which is located very far away. Likewise, on the highway, the sky is reflected in puddles that are not really there. 10. Thousands of tourists and local residents witnessed a mirage that lasted for four hours in the city of Penglai off the east coast of China. Fogs created an image of the city, with modern high-rise buildings, wide city streets and noisy cars. It rained for two days in the city of Penglai before this rare weather event occurred.
11.And this mirage appeared off the coast of the Chinese resort island of Hainan.
It is reported that the mirage arose due to the abnormally high air temperature that settled on the island, which is usually unusual for this time of year.
In the video below you will see a whole ghost town that appeared for some time on the eastern coast of China.