It seems only fitting that the first clear image of our demoted planet, Pluto, revealed a giant heart-shaped geographic feature, as if to send a love note to Arizonans, where the distant icy world was discovered 85 years ago. During the third week of July, Lowell Observatory’s Will Grundy played a prominent role in the celebrated fly-by of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft. Grundy leads the mission’s surface composition team and balanced his time during this frenetic week between analyzing … [Read more...] about Pioneering Mission Bringing Outer Atmosphere Into Focus