During Operation Plumbbob (pictured), the codename for nuclear tests in the Nevada desert in 1957, an underground detonation blew a manhole cover into the air at five times Earth's escape velocity. The Americans launched their first official satellite, Explorer I, in 1958, and the history books will tell you that the Soviet Union got there first with Sputnik. But the location of the manhole cover from the nuclear weapons test in the Nevada desert in 1957 remains a mystery.
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The image was released ahead of a press conference tomorrow where dozens of images of Pluto and its moons are expected to be released.
Is the Lexus hoverboard real? New footage of levitating gadget revealed (but we STILL don't get to see anyone riding it)
The new video stars Ross McGouran, a professional skateboarder, who says riding the Lexus Slide is 'like floating on air'. The board supposedly uses electromagnetism to levitate itself. McGouran is billed as a 'hoverboard test pilot' - but the footage stops short of showing him actually riding the board.
What's next for New Horizons? Probe may be first to venture into icy Kuiper Belt surrounding our solar system after historic Pluto mission
Nasa is to consider sending the New Horizons probe to one of two frozen objects, like the one shown in the artists impression top right, in the ring of debris orbiting four billion miles from the sun. The spacecraft has power to last 20 more years and could even travel out of our solar system into interstellar space (illustrated in the graphic on the left). The first images beamed back to Earth by New Horizons following its close encounter with Pluto earlier this week have revealed mountains of ice towering around 11,000 feet high (shown in the image bottom right).
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A historic image of Pluto, with 10 times the resolution of anything ever seen before, has been unveiled by Nasa, after the New Horizons probe made a successful flyby of the dwarf planet yesterday. The image shows mountains that likely formed no more than 100 million years ago - mere youngsters relative to the 4.56-billion-year age of the solar system - and may still be in the process of building. That suggests the close-up region, shown in relation to Pluto on the bottom right, covers less than one percent of Pluto's surface, may still be geologically active today, and experts believe it could still have geysers and even volcanic activity. The top right image shows a glimpse of one of Pluto's moons, Charon.
The terrifying 'bloodthirsty giant peacock': New species of 5ft long winged dinosaur discovered - and it hints that Velociraptors were covered in feathers too
The new dinosaur, Zhenyuanlong suni (pictured, artists impression), was found fossilised in China. It lived during the Cretaceous Period around 125 million years ago and had short, bird-like wings but could not fly. The species may have evolved from ancestors that could fly and used its wings solely for display purposes, in a similar way to how peacocks use their colourful tails.
Bringing the fantasy world of Game of Thrones to life: Video reveals behind the scenes secrets of the show's visual effects
CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS: The video was compiled by London-based studio Mackevision. It reveals how visual effects and green screens were used to bring Game of Thrones to life including the city of Braavos and the House of Black and White. Mackevision is one of the VFX studios that was involved in producing the effects for the fifth season of Sky and HBO's show.
We've got Taylor Swift, but what is the rest of the UNIVERSE listening to? Map reveals how long it takes radio waves to travel through space - with distant stars only just tuning in to 40s jazz
Called Lightyear.fm, the project was created by New York-based computer designers Brian Moore and Chris Baker with Mike Lacher and Mikhail Chernov. Put simply, radio waves travel at the speed of light which means that songs which are one light year from Earth were roughly released a year ago. Using Billboard chart data from The Whitburn Project, the designers worked out the best-selling hits from the past 110 years and the map takes users through the solar system and Milky Way playing songs based on when they were released, and the distance in the universe the map is showing. At the start of the animation, Fifth Harmony's Worth It starts playing and the animation centres on Earth's orbit (inset). At 31 light-years from Earth, when songs from the mid-1980s including Wham's Wake Me UP Before You Go-Go would only just be arriving, the animation reaches the constellation Ursa Major. 61 Ursae Majoris at 31 is pictured main.
Is this Britain's oldest town? Iron Age settlement dating back to 100BC that was home to hundreds of Celts unearthed
The previously unknown of settlement dubbed Duropolis at Winterborne Kingston, near Blandford, Dorset, dates to around 100BC, which makes it 80 years earlier than Colchester in Essex. Colchester is widely regarded as Britain's oldest recorded town.Students from Bournemouth University have excavated the remains of 16 Iron Age roundhouses (pictured) but have 'barely scratched the surface' of the site which is believed to contain well over 200 domestic structures.
Who knew frying an egg could blow your mind! Video reveals the strange electromagnetic power of an induction HOB
Induction hobs work because 'inside the stove plate you have an electromagnet that spins around and turns the pan into the element,' according to the video's maker in South Africa. The video features half a saucepan. Eggs (pictured main), chocolate and bacon (pictured inset) are placed in the half pan to show that they cook quickly when touching a metal cooking pot, but stay raw when placed directly on the induction hob.
Is this the future of airports? Runways could be built in CITY CENTRES with planes taking off above streets
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