(distance between Earth and Venus) = a Ã cos(e) Similarly, with a little more trigonometry: (distance between Venus and the Sun) = a Ã sin(e) The greatest elongation of Venus is about 46 degrees, so by this reasoning, the Sun-Venus distance is about 72% of the Sun-Earth distance.
exists and is an alternate of . Yes, you can ski on Mauna Kea (Hawaiian for 'white mountain'). It's a 13,796' (4205 meter) volcanic mountain whose summit sometimes gets a skiable/boardable mantle of snow. There are no lifts, no grooming, no resort, but a road goes to the summit to serve the dozen or so world class observatories located at the summit.
Snow falls almost every winter in Hawaii, but only at the tallest summits of the islands' three tallest volcanoes: Mauna Loa (the Earth's largest volcano) and Mauna Kea, both on the Big Island, and Haleakala on Maui. lot of people have no idea that it snows in #Hawaii !I live on the slopes of #MaunaKea which has choke snow now! pic.twitter.com/woeQPBQ2mB.