Post by darksun on Dec 10, 2018 12:45:17 GMT
By The Siberian Times10 December 2018
Despite appearances, there is no city anywhere near this oil and gas facility in the Arctic.
The picture was snapped by a worker at Yamburgskoe oil and gas condensate field.
The amazing phantom city was pictured from Yamburgskaya gas-compressor station some 150 kilometres above the polar circle.
The temperature here was reported to be a bone-chilling minus 50C.
Nearest city Novy Urengoy with a 115,000 population is some 130 kilometres to the south.
The picture was snapped by a worker at Yamburgskoe oil and gas condensate field, on Tazov peninsula in Yamal-Nenets autonomous district.
Arctic mirage
The amazing phantom city was pictured from Yamburgskaya gas-compressor station some 150 kilometres above the polar circle.
The mirage is believed to be a Fata Morgana, most commonly seen in polar regions.
This involves a thermal inversion .
It is known as a complex form of superior mirage seen in a narrow band immediately above the horizon.
The curvature of the light rays within the inversion layer is stronger than the curvature of the Earth.
Yamburgskoe oil and gas condensate field, on Tazov peninsula in Yamal-Nenets autonomous district.
Yamburg field
Yamburg field
source siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/the-skyscrapers-of-a-bleak-city-loom-out-of-the-icy-mist-on-tazov-peninsula-but-it-is-an-amazing-mirage/
Despite appearances, there is no city anywhere near this oil and gas facility in the Arctic.
The picture was snapped by a worker at Yamburgskoe oil and gas condensate field.
The amazing phantom city was pictured from Yamburgskaya gas-compressor station some 150 kilometres above the polar circle.
The temperature here was reported to be a bone-chilling minus 50C.
Nearest city Novy Urengoy with a 115,000 population is some 130 kilometres to the south.
The picture was snapped by a worker at Yamburgskoe oil and gas condensate field, on Tazov peninsula in Yamal-Nenets autonomous district.
Arctic mirage
The amazing phantom city was pictured from Yamburgskaya gas-compressor station some 150 kilometres above the polar circle.
The mirage is believed to be a Fata Morgana, most commonly seen in polar regions.
This involves a thermal inversion .
It is known as a complex form of superior mirage seen in a narrow band immediately above the horizon.
The curvature of the light rays within the inversion layer is stronger than the curvature of the Earth.
Yamburgskoe oil and gas condensate field, on Tazov peninsula in Yamal-Nenets autonomous district.
Yamburg field
Yamburg field
source siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/the-skyscrapers-of-a-bleak-city-loom-out-of-the-icy-mist-on-tazov-peninsula-but-it-is-an-amazing-mirage/