Mauna Loa Observatory

Mauna Loa Observatory is an atmospheric baseline station on on the island of Hawaiʻi, located in the US state of .
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  • Type: Commerce
  • Description: atmospheric baseline station near Hilo, Hawaii, US
  • Address: Mauna Loa, HI

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mauna Loa Solar Observatory and AMiBA.

Observatory
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The is a solar observatory located on the slopes of on the island of Hawai'i in the . Built in 1965, the MLSO is operated by the , a laboratory within the , and is situated on property managed by the .

Building
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Yuan-Tseh Lee Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy, also known as the Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy, is a radio telescope designed to observe the cosmic microwave background and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in clusters of galaxies.

Building
The is a laboratory of the US . HAO operates the on Hawaii and a research institute in .

Mauna Loa Observatory

Latitude
19.53606° or 19° 32′ 10″ north
Longitude
-155.57612° or 155° 34′ 34″ west
Open location code
73F6GCPF+CH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 207260288
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­commercial
Wiki­data ID
Q622590
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Russian—“Mauna Loa Observatory” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مرصد مونا لوا”
  • Bosnian: “Opservatorija Mauna Loa”
  • Catalan: “Observatori de Mauna Loa”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕوانگەی ماونا لوا”
  • Chinese: “茂納羅亞火山觀測站”
  • Chinese: “莫納羅亞火山天文台”
  • Chinese: “莫納羅亞火山天文臺”
  • Chinese: “莫纳罗亚”
  • Dutch: “Mauna Loa Observatorium”
  • French: “Mauna Loa Observatory”
  • French: “observatoire du Mauna Loa”
  • French: “Observatoire du Mauna Loa”
  • German: “Mauna Loa-Observatorium”
  • German: “Messstation Mauna Loa”
  • Hebrew: “מצפה מאונה לואה”
  • Japanese: “マウナロア観測所”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mauna Loa-observatoriet”
  • Norwegian: “Mauna Loa-observatoriet”
  • Portuguese: “Observatório Mauna Loa”
  • Russian: “Атмосферная обсерватория на Мауна-Лоа”
  • Russian: “Погодная обсерватория на Мауна-Лоа”

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