My big volcano, It's called Mauna Kea.

我的大火山，名字叫做冒纳凯阿火山。

More than half of Hawaii's Mauna Kea is submerged.

夏威夷莫纳克亚山一半以上被淹没。

Opposition to telescopes on Mauna Kea is nothing new.

反对在莫纳克亚山建造天文望远镜已经不是什么新鲜事了。

From top to bottom, Mauna Kea is over 11 miles high.

从山顶到山底，莫纳克亚火山的高度超过了 11 英里。

The astronomy community is making compromises to change its use of Mauna Kea.

天文学界正在做出让步来改变其对莫纳克亚山的使用。

Relax a few days on Mauna Kea Beach, with Hawaii's highest point, the summit of the Mauna Kea volcano, in the backdrop.

身处莫纳克亚海滩，以夏威夷的最高点，莫纳克亚火山做背景，好好放松几天。

But Mauna Kea is also home to some of the world's most powerful telescopes.

但是莫纳克亚山也是世界上一些功能最强大的天文望远镜的集中地。

Only the highest-ranking chiefs were permitted to climb to Mauna Kea's summit above the clouds.

只有最高级别的酋长才被允许登上莫纳克亚山的云层之上。

However, the development was not enough for protesters to end their block of the road into Mauna Kea.

不过，这样的进展并不足以让抗议者们不再堵住通往莫纳克亚山顶的路。

The summit of Mauna Kea volcano on Hawaii has grown over two and a half miles above sea level.

夏威夷的莫纳克亚火山已经高出了海平面 2.5 英里。

They did not always prioritize the protection of Mauna Kea's fragile ecosystems or its holiness to the island's inhabitants.

他们并不总是把保护莫纳克亚山脆弱的生态环境或维护莫纳克亚山对岛上居民而言的神圣地位放在优先位置。

Thirty Meter Telescope's director Ed Stone said in a statement that the group still plans to build on Mauna Kea.

TMT负责人埃德·斯通在一份声明中写道，该组织依然打算莫纳克亚山顶安放望远镜。

At the summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the big island, wind gusts of 191 miles per hour were recorded.

在大岛上的休眠火山莫纳克亚山的顶部，风速达到每小时191英里。

At issue is the TMT's planned location on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano worshiped by some Hawaiians as the piko, that connects the Hawaiian Islands to the heavens.

有争议的是TMT的计划建造地点——莫纳克亚山，它是被一些夏威夷人信奉为“piko”（夏威夷本地语言中代表着“大海的浪花”，“冲浪运动”，并引申有“阳光”，“生命”，“健康”等含义）的休眠火山，他们认为此山连接着夏威夷群岛和天堂。

That's what brought us here to Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

这就是我们来到夏威夷莫纳克亚山的原因。

Rested in the Pacific Ocean, Mauna Kea's peak rises above the bulk of our planet's dense atmosphere, where conditions allow telescopes to obtain images of unsurpassed clarity.

莫纳克亚山坐落于太平洋，其顶峰穿透地球浓密的大气层。在那里，天文望远镜可以捕捉到无比清晰的画面。

To limit the number of telescopes on Mauna Kea, old ones will be removed at the end of their lifetimes and their sites returned to a natural state.

为了限制莫纳克亚山上的天文望远镜数量，旧的天文望远镜在寿命终结后会被拆除，其原址也会恢复自然状态。

Over several nights in April 2017, EHT pointed telescopes at 8 different locations around the world at the black hole, including the eight antennas here at the Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea.

在 2017 年 4 月的几个晚上， EHT 将望远镜对准了世界各地黑洞的 8 个不同位置，包括位于莫纳克亚山亚毫米阵列的八个天线。