A NASA spacecraft bound
for Pluto has captured its first photo of the dwarf planet's largest moon
Charon, a cosmic snapshot snapped from nearly 550 million miles away.
The new Charon photo
was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which is closing in on Pluto and
due to fly by the icy world in July 2015. The black-and-white image shows
Charon as a dim object that is near, but clearly separate from, the brighter
object that is Pluto.
