Mirage
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...the distance a nonexistent body of water or an image, sometimes...horizon and back to earth. The image formed appears to be that produced...explained in the same way as the image of the ship, except that the image is not inverted; the density...of Messina; in this mirage images of objects such as ships...