It had an impact on Rich Matsuda, Keck’s interim director, who said the experience shed light on the extensive preparation required to enter a sacred space, such as leaving one’s everyday troubles outside.
Mauna Kea, volcano in Hawaii, is sacred to spiritual practitioners and treasured by astronomers
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Rich Matsuda, associate director for external relations at W.M. Keck Observatory, said telescopes may need to adjust staff schedules and house workers at a facility partway up the mountain for a while so they don't have to commute.
Molten lava on Hawaii's Big Island could block main highway
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