why are cameras fooled by superior mirages?

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I was reading this [newspaper article about a hovering ship](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/05/ship-hovering-above-sea-cornwall-optical-illusion?)

While I understand how the brain is fooled, why is a camera?

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Light hits a camera sensor the same way that light hits an eyeball. Neither your brain nor the camera are “fooled”; they’re both showing you a picture based on the light that hits them. If the light being detected by both of them is bent the same way, then they’ll both end up with the same distorted image.

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