The New Horizons mission has revealed Pluto and its moon Charon to be geologically active worlds. The familiar, yet exotic, landforms suggest that geologic processes operate similarly across the Solar System, even in its cold outer reaches.
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Schenk, P., Nimmo, F. New Horizons at Pluto. Nature Geosci 9, 411–412 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2729
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