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Image: Snowy Sunrise on Maunakea

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Description: In this Image of the Week the sunrise lights up a snow-capped Maunakea, home to the Maunakea Observatories that include the northern member of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSFʻs NOIRLab. When most people think of Hawai‘i, what comes to mind is a warm and sunny climate. However, during the northern winter months, snow sometimes blankets the two largest mountains on Hawaiʻi Island, Maunakea and Maunaloa, creating captivating winter scenes. Gemini North on Maunakea sawsnow on 25 January 2021 and the snow remains even now on 10 February, 2021.
Title: Snowy Sunrise on Maunakea
Credit: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2106a/
Author: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Cooper
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