The
green flash and
green ray are
meteorological optical phenomena that sometimes occur transiently around the moment of
sunset or
sunrise. When the conditions are right, a distinct green spot is briefly visible above the upper rim of the
Sun's disk; the green appearance usually lasts for no more than two seconds. Rarely, the green flash can resemble a green ray shooting up from the sunset or sunrise point.
Green flashes occur because the
earth's atmosphere can cause the light from the Sun to
separate out into different colors. Green flashes are a group of similar phenomena that stem from slightly different causes, and therefore, some types of green flashes are more common than others.
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I started to wonder where they got the inspiration from for Pirates of the Carribean... Seems it exsists, only I don't think any dead person ever returned from Davey Jones' Locker