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...with extreme difficulty. Since water in the earth's atmosphere absorbs most infrared light, astronomers had to send up instrument-packed balloons and rockets, go aloft in specially equipped planes or perform infrared work in high-altitude observatories like the one atop Hawaii's 14,000-ft. Mauna Kea volcano. But thanks to some extremely innovative, indeed, out of this world, engineering, IRAS bypasses the obscuring atmosphere entirely...
...freeways and frisbees went back into the minds of the Dunsterites, the urge to don the string bikini was just too great to stay repressed and it bubbled back to the surface, and so two weeks later Hawaiian Night was born. This time around it was Mauai and Mauna Kea over Monterrey, and pineapple juice instead of orange drink. And the sweet strains of "Hawaiian Love Song" drowned out the bleating screams of "Help Me, Rhonda...
...belched into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution. But only recently has the increase become a cause of concern. In the past 20 years, it rose almost as much as it did in the century before. These measurements, made by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography atop Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii, are confirmed by similar readings at locations as far-flung as the South Pole, Alaska and Samoa...
...high is Mauna...
...Mauna Kea, Hawaii's highest peak, rises to a height of 13,796 feet...