January 31st, 2017
Bill McKinnon released this image the significance of which I've overlooked for far too long. I've changed the red lines some but that's relatively insignificant compared to the elevation information.

The darker the area the lower it is conversely lighter areas have higher elevations.

This image reinforces some observation I made previously. Viking Terra's northern edge is bright white (highest) while the southern edge is darker (lowest). The lowest area of Viking Terra has a fluid looking outline with tholin sliding down the edge of the bulge southward.

Piri Planitia is a basin which is an extension of the bulge that is Viking Terra.
This is a crazy set of outlines which I originally created months ago. I have just added two more circles (red & yellow) that are identifying the central point of the spider and a large area that has rings that look like arched or curved bubbles creating the ring pattern. I'm calling this area Melting Ice Cream.

In the middle of this series of raised ringed bubbles  is a lower collapsed area that looks like melting ice cream.

As the ice cream drupes from top to bottom it becomes harder with sharp crystalline  ridges dotted with vent holes that are creating a fracture line running horizontally towards Sleipnir Fossa.

Sleipnir Fossa is a NS fracture extending to the heart of the spider. The way these two features align suggest a story to me.

This story goes back to my theory expressed on Page 56 that Pluto and Charon performed an eccentric elliptical dance before they settled into a nice circular and tidally locked orbit. In the early stages of their dance both were spinning on their axis. The in and out energy from the elliptical orbits softened their interiors while the axial spin shifted the softened tidally bulging fluid around the planet.

To be more accurate tidal flex moved around the planet, whether the fluid itself moved around is irrelevant, what did move was a tidal flex energy generating heat from shifting gravitational forces created by their elliptical orbits and axial spin. Since that's a mouth full, its easier to just say the fluid was moving but it was the gravitational flexing energy heating and softening various areas. This created the nitrogen fluid, bulging and collapsed fingers, the spider and now I'm suggesting it created the melting ice cream feature.

Viking Terra with its distended bulge merging into the inverted and collapsed frozen Piri Planitia along with the NE finger help me interpret what I see at the heart of the spider along with the melting ice cream circle.
As these planets danced and spun the under ground tidal bulge fluid moved around the planet it heated and distended areas while tidal flex cracked the crust in some areas. As the tidal bulge and flex moved away, those areas cooled and collapsed. The Spider heart was one such area that was distended outward, the crustal material at this location is more rigid and brittle so the land ice cracked creating features like Sleipnir Fossa. The hot spot moved like we see in the Hawaiian islands. It migrated into the melting ice cream zone. This area was apparently compositionally able to flex rather than crack so it became a bulge like Viking Terra. It is currently in the process of cooling this is why the outer rings are still raised and the inner circle is a depression which looks like melting ice cream. For this scenario to work much of this damage would have to occur as the axial spin slowed and the elliptical orbits became more circular grinding down to a slow halt.

This makes me wonder which stopped first the axial spin or the elliptical orbit. If the axial spin stopped first then the elliptical orbits would have kept flexing and heating primarily one spot. If the elliptical orbits settle first then the axial spin would have kept changing the focus of the tidal flex energy. Since we see so much upheaval and disruptions in so many areas it seems the elliptical orbits likely stopped before Pluto completely spun down but Charon had probably already locked. This would focus the pressure on Charon's side facing Pluto while migrating slowly the bulge energy on Pluto creating this varied terrain.

While this is one possibility it's also just as possible this is an impact site and this is how the crustal ice reacted to this impact. I personally favor the moving tidal bulge scenario but either one could explain this feature.
In this colored elevation map hues of blue and purple are low areas while reds and yellows are high areas.

Notice how you not only see the north edge of Viking Terra as raised in red/orange but while migrating south, the area turns yellow and green flowing into a really dark green. The orange raised area is also where the largest deposits of methane snow exist it was the snow that first alerted me to this area being a bulge.

The darkened green area has a fluid looking outline. This dark color is a representation of height not a reflection of the red tholin on the surface even though it matches the red tholin's runny footprint exactly. This distinct runny fluid outline migrates directly into the basin that is Piri Planitia.

For me this strengthens two concepts, Piri Planitia is a sunken basin which is an inverted land feature extension of Viking Terra which is a bulging land mass that is pushed upward by subsurface pressures.
This speaks volumes to me about how depressions like Piri Planitia and the NE finger are formed.
They start out as distended crustal bulges created by under ground fluid's and gasses under pressure. As the gasses and/or fluids constrict or escape a cavity is left behind which freezes and constricts leaving behind fractures and depressions.
Venera Terra (black rectangle area above) encompasses an area that is mostly orange and raised relatively high yet it has green meandering channels running between the blocks of elevated orange.

This is how it looks in another color reference       >>>>>>







This is how it looks on earth.
These elevation maps also show a ridge line that runs from the North Pole to the South.

To the left is a cut out section of the above elevation map.


I want to point out how there is a red orange elevation band that runs from the north pole down to the south. In some areas it may be faint but it is present

This whole ridge line is a compression zone.

Follow the orange elevated ridge from top to bottom in this cut out.

It breaks up in regions but then rejoins always following the NS flow.

It is interrupted in the center by an impact crater (to the left)

It butts up against SP and is in fact created by SP as it pushes the land ice westward.

The bulge at Viking Terra has a white arrow coming in the image from the lower right. The terrain at the horizontal fractures is orange or elevated.


Again down in this area the elevated compression ridge is interrupted by a crater called Elliot


Along the southern area where there are peaks capped with methane snow the orange color (indicating elevated terrain) is mottled but still visible. The 3 white arrows are pointing to the orange hued ridge.
These are compression ridges or mountains on Earth also known as fold mountains. These features are created when two crustal plates press against each other folding the silicate rock.
These are compression ridges on Pluto. NASA scientists say compression features don't exist on Pluto only expansion cracks or fractures proving their theory of a hot core and ocean.
 
In the below image you can see Wright Mons on the right with the light colored gray fluid from SP encroaching on the land ice like a tsunami. The massive ice blocks called Norgay Montes are just out of the image but are being pressed against Wright Mons pushing and squeezing the land westward into the southern ridge that is heaving upward under the pressure. This is causing the land ice to buckle and fold creating compression mountains AKA fold mountains.

NASA can't see this, according to them there are no compression features on Pluto.
The elevation maps on this page help show how the crustal ices have heaved & bulged, cracked & settled, heated & cooled and how this process migrated around the planet. Depending on the varying degrees, mixtures and concentrations of the solid/fluid/gas gasses comprising the ices some flexed more than others, some cracked and some folded into mountain ranges with methane capped peaks. Their mixture along with the induced energy from flex determined how they deformed, cracked or flowed.

This is the active geology we see on Pluto, it comes from the past migrating tidal flex energy that was created by the Pluto/Charon elliptical eccentric axial spinning dance that preceded their current tidally locked orbits. While their orbits are not producing this energy now what we see are the past fossilized remnants of that energy and the currently cooling but still active after effects at SP.

My Skin Slip page 81 has some additional info that might help.
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