Triple Rainbows Confirmed To Exist (And Apparently Quadruple)
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 11:50
in Physics & Chemistry
We've done articles on rainbows, and double rainbows and even showed you how to make a rainbow appear for that special someone - but have you ever seen a triple rainbow?Scientific reports of tertiary rainbows are rare - only five in 250 years - putting them firmly in the category of myth. Such an optical rarity, caused by three reflections of each light ray within a raindrop, have finally been confirmed, thanks to photographic perseverance and a new meteorological model that provides the scientific underpinnings to find them. In addition to the confirmed photo of a tertiary rainbow, the optical treasure hunt went one step further, as revealed in another photo that shows the shimmering trace of a fourth (quaternary) rainbow. read more