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+  "title": "Northern Pluto",
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+  "imageAlt": "See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available.",
+  "credit": "[NASA](http://www.nasa.gov/), [Johns Hopkins Univ./APL](http://www.jhuapl.edu/), [Southwest Research Institute](http://www.swri.edu/)"
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+[Gaze across](http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/image.php?page=14&gallery_id=2&image_id=412) the frozen canyons of northern Pluto in this contrast enhanced color scene. The image data used to construct it was acquired in July 2015 by the New Horizons spacecraft as it made the first reconnaissance flight through the remote Pluto system six billion kilometers from the Sun. [Now known](https://www.iau.org/public/images/detail/ann19052a/) as Lowell Regio, the region was named for Percival Lowell, founder of the Lowell Observatory. Also famous for his speculation that there were canals on Mars, Lowell started the search that ultimately [led to Pluto's discovery](https://lowell.edu/discover/telescopes-exhibits/pluto-discovery-telescope/) in 1930 by [Clyde Tombaugh](https://earthsky.org/space/clyde-tombaugh-discovered-pluto-on-february-18-1930/). In this frame Pluto's [North Pole](http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/image.php?page=14&gallery_id=2&image_id=413) is above and left of center. The pale bluish floor of the broad canyon on the left is about 70 kilometers (45 miles) wide, running vertically toward the south. Higher elevations take on a yellowish hue. [New Horizon's measurements](http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/pluto-the-ice-plot-thickens) were used to determine that in addition to nitrogen ice, methane ice is abundant across Lowell Regio. So far, Pluto is the only [Solar System world](https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/dwarf-planets/pluto/in-depth/) named by an 11-year-old girl.