In 1894, Lowell Observatory was founded by the astronomer Percival Lowell. The Lowell Observatory is located on top of one of the mountains in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. It is one of the firstborn observatories in the United States, and it is one of the largest observatories in the world. It is very hard to start an observatory in the nineteenth century because of four main things. First, in the nineteenth century, there was a lack of technology, and the experts in technology had the minimum equipment to help in the field. Furthermore, there was a lack of experience, and there were not many experts in the field. In addition, there was a lack of funding, and it was hard to open an observatory on personal fund. Moreover, finding the perfect …show more content…
The Lowell Observatory did not concentrate wholly on Mars; “his other planetary observations - of Venus, Mercury, and Saturn - were also useful.” (Bruce Bond). Consequently, Slipher came to the observatory as a temporary assistant and he made a significant discoveries which is “how to measure the expansion of the universe.” (Bruce Bond). Then, Christopher Crockett in “Pluto: Explored. (Cover Story)” said that on February 18, 1930, the astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered new planet. Clyde Tombaugh discovered the dwarf planet Pluto from the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, …show more content…
Michael D. Lemonick in “The Path to Pluto” before nine years ago NASA lunched a spacecraft to Pluto. The spacecraft should arrive Pluto on July 2014. What the astronomers will learn from this journey is that they will receive images and information about Pluto, but sending the information from Pluto to Earth will take nine hours for a single image and it is traveling at the speed of light (Michael D. Lemonick). Also, Christopher Crockett said that “They may find nitrogen volcanoes or hints of a bygone subsurface ocean. The probe will also explore why Pluto’s tenuous atmosphere is leaking into