The Superior Mirage Effect

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The superior mirage effect is the idea that if you've got a cold surface and then a hot surface on top of it, the light will be bentk. What you're actually seeing is an image of the city of chicago projected into the sky because the light is bent,. given the temperature gradient n those two surfaces. And i it's a really cool effect, which i've now seen, you know, many times. You can even take avitio of it,you know, the blinking lights of the transmitter over the horizon. It's areally cool effect because it's this image it's projected. I mean, we've all seen the inferior a mirage effect.

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