eli5: Does light refraction extend to the non-visible light specturm when a rainbow is created?

Question

I was just thinking about how amazing rainbows are and how lucky we are that we can see them. But I was also wondering if other animals or hypothetical aliens that can see different spectra of light can also see something in the sky or is it just coincidentally just visible light?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Yes, but. Water is not transparent across the whole non-visible spectrum. You get some IR cutoff at 800nm. Water transmits UV better, but starts to absorb it significantly between 100 and 200nm.