After revealing several mysterious facts about the dwarf planet Pluto, NASA's New Horizons mission now is ready to explore Pluto's largest moon. The agency said that the spacecraft has even captured some new high-resolution images of the moon.

The agency said the images of Charon that have been recently transmitted show some extraordinary images of the moon. The images show never-before-seen details in the moon's landscape that testament a savagely violent history.

The latest pictures released Thursday illustrate Charon as a complex world covered in ridges, canyons, mountains and different colors.

Charon is approximately half the diameter of Pluto, which makes it the largest moon relative in the world it is orbiting in the solar system. The orbital dance of both Pluto and Charon is so extreme that as Charon's orbit, it causes Pluto to wobble wildly. The center of the system's gravity is located above Pluto's surface.

However, as per planetary classifications, this new view of Charon shows a fascinating world in its own, filled with stunning craters, interesting geological features and a dramatically cracked crust that has surprised New Horizons scientists.

John Spencer, deputy lead for GGI at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., said, "It looks like the entire crust of Charon has been split open. With respect to its size relative to Charon, this feature is much like the vast Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars".

Before the New horizons made a close flyby with Pluto, planetary scientists used to believe that Charon's surface would be fairly a rocky object pockmarked with craters.

"We thought the probability of seeing such interesting features on this satellite of a world at the far edge of our solar system was low," added Ross Beyer, an affiliate of the New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging (GGI) team from the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., "but I couldn't be more delighted with what we see."

"Four times as long as the Grand Canyon, and twice as deep in places, these faults and canyons indicate a titanic geological upheaval in Charon's past," NASA said in a press release.