Jan 23, 2025 · In the arctic mirage a distant object appears right way up but higher up than the actual location. Though arctic and desert mirages seem to be quite different, they share a …

Mar 2, 1995 · This type of arctic mirage differs from "inferior" mirages, those that occur in deserts or over hot road surfaces, because the air layers are reversed. In a desert or on hot blacktop, …

Jan 9, 2025 · The fate morgana mirage is one that can occur only where there are alternating warm and cold layers of air near the ground or water surface. Instead of traveling straight …

Jan 23, 2025 · Though popular lore has it that mirages occur in deserts, Fairbanks has an unusual number. It is quite common to look out across the Tanana Valley and see elevated lines of …

Jan 23, 2025 · Art Greenwelt of Fairbanks asks the question: "Why do peaks of the Alaska Range, when seen from Fairbanks during the winter, sometimes appear to be chopped off, flattened …

News of the war in the Falkland Islands must surely bring back memories to veterans of the struggle for the Aleutians in World War II.

Jan 23, 2025 · Fireball meteors, auroras, noctilucent clouds, mirage phenomena, atmospheric dust, city lights reflected from clouds, earthquake lights, lightning, forest fires, ice crystals and …

Jan 23, 2025 · The Northern Lights and the aurora borealis are two names for the same thing. The term aurora borealis was first used by Galileo in 1619 to suggest the likeness of the …

Jan 9, 2025 · Among reports of peculiar mirages or other strange phenomena observed in the Arctic is one described by P. Berwick of Fairbanks. In that instance several people at a DEW …

Feb 20, 2006 · Truck-size wedges of underground ice that have remained in place for thousands of years on Alaska’s North Slope seem to be thawing, according to a scientist doing work for …