February 21, 2016

Charon's surface and in particular the area called Serenity Chasma (Image NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)

The analysis of the photographs of Charon, the largest of Pluto’s moons, suggests that once it had an underground ocean that at some point froze causing the expansion of its surface layer. That event could explain the presence of a very long fracture on its surface, a kind of huge scar that devastates its equator.