(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.
If you are not standing on a mountain, you are probably looking at one. Some of Hawaii's mountains are even quite high. Mauna Kea and Mauna Lo â¦ a on the 'Big Island' of Hawaii both come in at a little under 14000ft, which is less than 1000ft shorter than the highest mountains in the lower 48 states.aleakala on Maui comes in at a hair over 10000ft, and is believed to have once been as high as 15000ft (or more) before the top was eroded away by wind, water, and glaciers. Other mountains are considerably shorter than these. But none of the larger islands is exactly flat.