„It‘s a unique and perplexing landscape stretching over hundreds of miles,“ said William McKinnon, New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging (GGI) team deputy lead from Washington University in St. Louis. „It looks more like tree bark or dragon scales than geology. This‘ll really take time to figure out; maybe it‘s some combination of internal tectonic forces and ice sublimation driven by Pluto‘s faint sunlight.“