High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Atmospheric refraction is the deviation of light or other electromagnetic wave from a straight line as it passes through the atmosphere due to the variation in air density as a function of altitude. Atmospheric refraction near the ground produces mirages and can make distant objects appear to shimmer or ripple, elevated or lowered,stretched or shortened with no mirage involved. The term also applies to the refraction of sound.

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