By KIKUMA MORIKITA/ Staff Writer
September 16, 2024 at 07:00 JST
A single light source aboard a fishing boat near the mouth of the Ozayagawa river in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, appears stretched horizontally, as if there were two spots of light arranged side by side, at 2:50 a.m. on Sept. 3. (Photographed by the Earth Science Group of the Uto High School Science Club)
UTO, Kumamoto Prefecture--A high school science club here enlisted the help of local fishermen to reproduce a rare type of atmospheric optical phenomenon that can be glimpsed in the Yatsushiro Sea and nowhere else in Japan. [Read More]
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