Lowell Regio is a region on the
dwarf planet Pluto. It was discovered by the ''
New Horizons
''New Horizons'' is an Interplanetary spaceflight, interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research ...
'' spacecraft in 2015. The region corresponds to the Plutonian northern polar cap. It is named after
Percival Lowell who established the observatory where
Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.
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