MAUNA KEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mauna Kea mean? 

• MAUNA KEA (noun)
  The noun MAUNA KEA has 1 sense:

1. an active volcano on north central Hawaii Island; highest peak in the Hawaiian Islands

  Familiarity information: MAUNA KEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAUNA KEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An active volcano on north central Hawaii Island; highest peak in the Hawaiian Islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

volcano (a mountain formed by volcanic material)

Holonyms ("Mauna Kea" is a part of...):

Hawaii; Hawaii Island (the largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks)

 Context examples 

The discovery was made using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and its extended K2 mission, as well as the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

(NASA's K2 Finds Newborn Exoplanet Around Young Star, NASA)

Additional follow-up observations by the Catalina Sky Survey and the University of Hawaii 88-inch (2.2-meter) telescope on Mauna Kea confirmed the orbit of 2014 RC.

(Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday, NASA)

The scientists based their findings on observations by the Subaru Telescope, atop the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, which is operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

(Jupiter's Atmosphere Heats up under Solar Wind, NASA)

De Pater discovered a third and even brighter eruption - one of the brightest ever seen on Io - on Aug. 29, using both the Near-Infrared Imager with adaptive optics on the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, and the SpeX near-infrared spectrometer on NASA's nearby Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF).

(A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io, NASA)

While the lines we were trying to detect were just barely there, we were able to detect them unambiguously thanks to the sensitivity of NIFS on Gemini, combined with the exquisite conditions on Mauna Kea, said lead author Patrick Irwin of the University of Oxford, U.K.

(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)

A global research team that includes Glenn Orton of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has spectroscopically dissected the infrared light from Uranus captured by the 26.25-foot (8-meter) Gemini North telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea.

(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)