New Maps for Earth and Moon, and India's Mars Mission

Mars Color Camera from an altitude of 8449 km, spatial resolution of 439 m, centered around Lat: 20.01N, Lon:31.54EScientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography discovered thousands of previously-unknown submerged mountains in data from satellites designed for measuring ice caps and ocean currents. Other scientists found a long-buried rift system on Earth's moon, and India's space program put a spacecraft in Mars orbit — on their first try....

...I'm pretty sure that most 'pure science' has practical applications: given time. Sometimes, given a lot of time. It took about two millennia for the aeolipiles of Vitruvius and Hero of Alexandria to make the transition from laboratory curiosities to steam engines and spaceship motors....

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