Thursday, August 16, 2007

RAINBOWS

Rainbows are optical and meteorological phenomena that cause a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. They take the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outer part of the arch and violet on the inner section of the arch. More rarely, a double rainbow is seen, which includes a second, fainter arc with colours in the opposite order, that is, with violet on the outside and red on the inside.

Even though a rainbow spans a continuous spectrum of colours, traditionally the full sequence of colours is most commonly cited and remembered as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet
Rainbows may also form in the spray created by waves.
Full featured double rainbow in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

Full featured double rainbow in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska
Rainbows may also form in mist, such as that of a waterfall
Rainbows may also form in mist, such as that of a waterfall

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