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Launched on January 19, 2006, space probe New Horizons is the most ambitious NASA's spacial project to reveal the secrets of a planet always fascinating and controversial: Pluto. Baptized with this name by a 11-years-old girl named Venetia Burney after its discovery in 1930 by an astronomer called Clyde Tombaugh, Pluto turned in the ninth planet of the Solar System and the most beloved by the children and a big part of human race. Degraded in 2006 to the category of "small planet", scientists and astronomers have created New Horizons' probe for a nine years travel until that on July 14, 2015, after a voyage crossing Solar System, space probe uses its high-tech cameras to photograph the planet revealing all secrets that planet keeps for itself. A chance to know better the limits of our space home.