NASA's New Horizon's probe has captured image of Pluto and Charon, its largest moon. The spacecraft will take only two weeks to closely encounter with the dwarf planet. Two icy gray circles hovering in a dark void could be seen in the image captured by the spacecraft.

Two objects looked similar to highly pixelated smudges of color in the earlier images and are not seen as separate spheres. But now, New Horizons just about 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) away from Pluto is approaching the dwarf planet. With this, mysteries behind these unknown worlds are being revealed on a daily basis.

According to Alice Bowman, the missions operations manager for New Horizons, "Looking at pictures on the website, you can see that Pluto and Charon are becoming more distinct in their surface features. It's getting pretty exciting. And every day is bringing new features into light".

In January 2006, New Horizons was launched and from last nine-plus years, it has been moving in the direction of Pluto in addition to the region of icy bodies beyond Neptune, called the Kuiper Belt. The mission is expected to come up with the first detailed information regarding the surface of Pluto.

The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) instrument onboard New Horizons captured the new image of Pluto and Charon.

According to a statement from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, these images are for scientific and aesthetic purposes in addition to navigational ones. As per Bowman, approximately 4.5 hours are needed to send a signal from APL's mission control center to New Horizons, 3 billion miles away.