Text Box: Mirage on the Road 374 East leaving Death Valley, CA

Text Box: The desert mirage of adventure stories and movies and song (for example, the country/western classic Cool Water) is more commonly seen today as a highway mirage, those apparent pools of water lying across the pavement, which always disappear before we can reach them.

Text Box: Mirage: A refraction phenomenon wherein an image of some distant object is made to appear displaced from its true position because of large vertical density variations near the surface; the image may appear distorted, inverted, or wavering.