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I’ve never orbited Eeloo, but I had 2 flybys and I took some pictures of it. What I saw is a planet covered in fractures and strange surface features. But what caused them to appear? I have 3 hypothesis about this strange planet Eeloo once had a large object orbiting close. That might cause tidal friction and as a result fractures, valleys and hills all over the surface. But where did this large moon go? It is possible that it was kicked off from its orbit by a massive collision! And then escaped Eeloo’s SOI. Perhaps it is Pol that once orbited Eeloo and the escaped? But what if Eeloo is still geologically active? Maybe it has its own cryogenic volcanoes. Or powerful steams of nitrogen and ice, rushing from underground to surface really quick. But how does cryogenic volcanism work? It’s quite simple. A lot of gasses like nitrogen, methane etc. are buried under ice in the caves and all sorts of places like that, but when the pressure is way too big, ice cracks and let gasses escape and fly away from the surface. This explains all those sudden brown spots… The last theory is that Eeloo has its own divided tectonic plates. That move and collide with each other causing earthquakes that leave fractures on surface. But that all are just theories and they need your support and ideas!.... P.S im not really sure if you get the word ''fractures'' as i expect And yeah about cryovolcanism, i would really love if you will mark where i made a mistake!