This Guy's Drone Caught Something Way Better Than Double Rainbow

by N/A, 9 years ago | 1 min read

While flying his drone, a man captured a photo of a double rainbow. But that's not it...

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Brad Hudson is a business owner in South Carolina. He was flying his drone in the Greenville area when he captured an amazing picture.

At an elevation of 400 feet, Brad captured this photo. It contains the extremely rare full-circle rainbow, as well as a second one. It's a full-circle/double rainbow.

He originally posted the photo to Instagram, thinking it was "just" a double rainbow. Later, he realized it was actually a both a double and full-circle rainbow.

Pretty shocking, no?

For comparison, here's a different photo of another full-circle rainbow (without the double rainbow on top).

Theoretically, all rainbows are full circles, though we can't see the other half on foot. A full-circle rainbow can be seen when the moisture allowing for the rainbow is beneath the observer. Hence, how Brad was able to capture the photo with his drone.

Then there's this full-circle rainbow, which is perhaps a more bizarre phenomenon, as it wasn't taken from the sky.

It was taken at Victoria Falls, which is on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe in Africa. The moisture below the photographer's field of vision allowed for it to be seen.

Nature is amazing.