5 Years Following Its Pluto Flyby, New Horizons Spacecraft Forges Ahead
Nitrogen ice does not seem to be plentiful in the area, and that material is soft enough that it would tend to slowly flow back down below the pull of gravity, erasing this sort of terrain. An alternate explanation would be that these are impact craters. For one thing, the likelihood that impacts will hit each of the largest peaks in the area—and hit them dead center—seems extraordinarily remote. The other trouble is that there are no influence web site…