How are rainbows created?

Question

Rain? Clouds? Prisms?

Answer 1

the refraction of sunlight by the rain drops

Answer 2

Rainbows are caused by sunlight reflecting off and refracting through raindrops. There is a very specific angle that each different wavelength of light will take so all parts of the rainbow of that color are always seen at exactly that angle away from the Sun, about 42 degrees for visible light. In math, the collection of all points at a certain distance from a point is a circle, so rainbows are seen as a circle around the sun

Answer 3

Rain leading to a prism effect. When sunlight hits a multitude of rain drops the light refracts giving us the complete spectrum of colors. R.O.Y.G.B.I.V. We can't see all the colors of the rainbow however,because of the frequency of some of the colors.

Answer 4

Did you know that the rainbow symbolizes Gods promise to us?
God created the rainbow. but it comes out when the rays of the sun reflects on the drops of rain. God Bless<><

I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."(Genesis 9:11-16)