What is a rainbow made of
” A rainbow is made from sunlight passing in and back out of water droplets in the sky. These water droplets act like tiny little round prisms, separating the white sunlight into all of its colors. The sunlight is bent/ refracted as it enters into the water droplet, bounces/ reflects of the back of the water droplet and passes back out of the front of the droplet. Each color from each droplet will now has its own path. We see red light coming from the droplets at the top of the rainbow and violet light coming from the droplets at the bottom of the rainbow. And in between those droplets, all of the other colors are also being separated out (from the white light) by other droplets. Have you ever heard of a moonbow? That’s a rainbow made from moonlight – The best time to see one is when the moon is full, don’t forget to “turn your back to the moon”! http://wug.physics.uiuc.edu/courses/phys150/spring02/slides/chap23/sld009.htm (In this image the sky looks blue and the grass green, like the
