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What prevents rainbows from being seen as complete circles?

What prevents rainbows from being seen as complete circles?
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What prevents rainbows from being seen as complete circles?

User Giorgio Minardi
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Well, the ground. Rainbows are always in the opposite direction from the sun, and in fact the very center of the circle formed by a rainbow is EXACTLY in the opposite direction from the sun.
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the earth does in order to see the whole complete circle you must get rid of the earth which you can not do
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