Are you seeing that? Did Philmont get a new floating islands DLC??? Well, not exactly... What you're seeing is a superior mirage, also called a fata morgana natural optical illusion! Typically, a mirage appears below the reflected object, like a puddle of water on a hot road. But in this case, warm air high in the sky bent the light downward, making distant land look like it was floating upside-down. This phenomenon occurred due to a rare temperature inversion. Normally, air gets colder at highe

A Fata Morgana mirage is an optical illusion caused by the bending of light rays in the Earth’s atmosphere, often over a surface with significant temperature variations. In Antarctica, temperature gradients between the frigid ice and the relatively warmer air can lead to the bending of light, creating distorted and elevated images of distant objects. This phenomenon produces intricate and sometimes surreal mirages, playing tricks on perception. One of the wildest mirages I saw was when we had a