A Plump Circle Rainbow over Norway

Have you ever viewed an complete rainbow? From the ground, most incessantly, supreme the discontinue portion of a rainbow is viewed attributable to directions towards the ground possess fewer raindrops. From the air, though, your complete 360-diploma circle of a rainbow is more commonly viewed. Pictured right here, a fleshy-circle rainbow became as soon as captured over the Lofoten Islands of Norway in September by a drone passing via a rain shower. An observer-dependent phenomenon essentially triggered by the internal reflection of sunlight by raindrops, the rainbow has a fleshy diameter of 84 degrees. The Sun is in the actual reverse path from the rainbow’s heart. As a bonus, a second rainbow that became another time faint and coloration-reversed became as soon as viewed originate air the first.