Death Valley Rainbow
While standing at the Zabriskie view point, a stunning rainbow graced Death Valley, illuminating the desert as rain approached. This was Nature's fleeting spectacle, but my camera captured it. Yeah, I am so lucky.
While standing at the Zabriskie view point, a stunning rainbow graced Death Valley, illuminating the desert as rain approached. This was Nature's fleeting spectacle, but my camera captured it. Yeah, I am so lucky.
While standing at the Zabriskie view point, a stunning rainbow graced Death Valley, illuminating the desert as rain approached. This was Nature's fleeting spectacle, but my camera captured it. Yeah, I am so lucky.
Rainbows form under specific conditions: sunlight, rain or water droplets in the air, the sun's angle, and optical phenomena. Sunlight passes through raindrops or suspended water droplets, refracting (bending) as it enters and then reflecting off the inside surface of the drop before dispersing into colors due to the prism-like effect of water. The sun must be behind the observer and relatively low in the sky, typically less than 42 degrees, to cast sunlight into the raindrops in front. Observers positioned between the sun and the rain see rainbows as circular arcs of color, with the center of the arc opposite the sun. These factors align to create the familiar sight of a rainbow, a fleeting yet captivating display of nature's optics and atmospheric conditions.
