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Transcription: Hawaii. What do you think of when you think of that state? Beautiful beaches with lush palm trees? Or perhaps majestic mountains behind a sapphire sea? Or maybe it's lush greenery surrounding gorgeous waterfalls. I bet the last thing that would come to mind is snow, but nevertheless it's there in Hawaii. These are pictures from an astronomical observatory on the top of Mount Akaia, the largest mountain in the Hawaiian islands. The mountain is more than 13,000 feet high and as you can see from this picture it is often above the clouds. In fact that's why the observatory is where it is. The high ...