Evaporation Fog. A type of fog produced from advection of cold air over warm water or warm or moist land. This type of fog is sometimes called steamfog or sea smoke

Evaporation fog forming over a lake as cool air flows over warm water.

 
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog 1818 by German Romantic painter Casper David Freidriech who said "The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him." The majority of his best-known paintings are expressions of a religious mysticism. His landscapes seek not just the blissful enjoyment of a beautiful view, as in the Classic conception, but an instant of sublimity, a reunion with the spiritual self through the lonely contemplation of an overwhelming Nature.
The Sublime (Philosophy)

Ground or nocturnal Inversions explained @the Fellwalker database of British hills & mountains.

The sublime, as a theme in aesthetics, was the founding movement of the Modernist period. Attempting to replace the beautiful with the release of the perceiver from the constraints of the human condition, these ideas were amplified in critical theory through the work of Jean-François Lyotard. For Lyotard, the sublime's significance is in the way it points to an aporia in human reason; it expresses the edge of our conceptual powers and reveals the multiplicity and instability of the postmodern world.

The experience of the sublime involves a self-forgetfulness where personal fear is replaced by a sense of well-being and security when confronted with an object exhibiting superior might, and is similar to the experience of the tragic. The "tragic consciousness" is the capacity to gain an exalted state of consciousness from the realization of the unavoidable suffering destined for all men and that there are oppositions in life that can never be resolved, most notably that of the "forgiving generosity of deity" subsumed to "inexorable fate".
Emery, Stephen A.. "Dessoir, Max". In Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Vol. 2, p. 356. Macmillan (1973)

fog links -

as gauzy mood changer and an enhancer of mystery
Aerosol-fog interactions
the Tule fog forms on clear nights when the ground is moist and the wind is near calm.
Bandit Fog Security Machine -Technology for a better world
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Ubiquity / enduring popularity of Athena poster imagery