Question

Often while traveling through deserts, people see pools of water that don’t exist. This occurrence is an optical illusion called ‘Mirage’. Do you know what the cause of a Mirage is? Find about it and write in brief.

Answer 1

Mirage is an optical illusion where it appears that water has collected on the road at a distant place but we get there,we don’t find any water.
The formation of a mirage is the best example where refractive index of medium varies throughout the medium.