NOUN
- an active volcano on north central Hawaii Island; highest peak in the Hawaiian Islands
How To Use Mauna Kea In A Sentence
- NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility images from Mauna Kea, Hawaii later confirmed the likely impact site's dark scar and plume of particles in Jupiter's upper atmosphere.
- The twin volcanoes, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, each rise well over 13,600 feet on an island 80 miles wide.
- The picture of this fogbow was made overlooking a valley adjacent to Mauna Kea.
- Yuan and colleagues used the giant Keck II telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii to measure the galaxy's metallicity at several different points.
- The three-week delay guaranteed that he could confirm and characterize the candidates at the 10-m telescope at the Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, the HST, or another powerful telescope.
- NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility images from Mauna Kea, Hawaii later confirmed the likely impact site's dark scar and plume of particles in Jupiter's upper atmosphere.
- Another complicating factor is that studies from Earth, using large telescopes such as the Keck Observatory atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, have not found any sign of sodium in the E ring.
- We have built an interferometer, which is a series of telescopes which are coordinated to operate as a single instrument on top of Mauna Kea. Universe Today
- The summit of dormant volcano Mauna Kea is home to the world's largest astronomical observatory and most powerful telescope.
- The twin giant Keck telescopes are situated at 4, 150 meters atop Mauna Kea, one of the world's best astronomical observing sites, and each has a primary mirror that is 10 meters across.