Where on Earth Can You Put a Giant Telescope?
Author: Sarah Laskow / Source: Atlas Obscura In 1963, the astronomer Gerard Kuiper hired a plane and flew above the clouds, to circle the summit of Mauna Kea, in Hawaii. He needed a mountain, and the first one he had seen here, Haleakala, disappointed—too much fog. But Mauna Kea, the tallest
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