NASA’S MARS HELICOPTER COMPLETES FLIGHT TESTING.

While the United States, Soviet, European, Chinese, Indian and Japanese space agencies have landed spacecraft on an array of planets, asteroids and comets, none have flown in the skies above those worlds—but that may soon change.

If everything goes as currently planned, when NASA’s Mars 2020 rover arrives at the Red Planet in February 2021 it will carry with it a technological first—a helicopter designed to fly in the thin Martian atmosphere.

In late January 2019, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) tested the flight model of the Mars Helicopter under conditions similar to those it is expected to face on the planet’s surface, where nighttime temperatures can be as low as minus 130 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 90 degrees Celsius).

https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/solar-system/nasas-mars-helicopter-completes-flight-testing/

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Notable.

Trump, Putin and a Possible ‘Red-Line Moment’ in Venezuela?

WASHINGTON — During his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump often complained about how President Barack Obama drew red lines that he never enforced, and how a diminished America let Russia walk into Syria unchallenged, something he said would not happen if the Russian leader respected the United States president.

Now, in Venezuela, President Trump is facing his own red-line moment — again, with Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

For the past week, the Trump administration has escalated its warnings about Russian intervention in the country, claiming that Moscow is helping to prop up President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and undermining the hopes of American officials that the Venezuelan military will oust him. The United States has been trying to rally the world behind Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader, as Venezuela’s legal interim president.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/us/politics/trump-putin-venezuela-red-line.html

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Venezuela crisis: Court asks to lift Guaidó's immunity!

Venezuela's Supreme Court has asked for opposition leader Juan Guaidó to be stripped of his parliamentary immunity, a move that could lead to his jailing.

The pro-government Constituent Assembly is expected to back the request.

Mr Guaidó declared himself interim leader in January, gaining the support of more than 50 countries including the US.

But President Nicolás Maduro has major allies too and retains the crucial backing of the military.

So.. What will happen if he is jailed?

What will POTUS do?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-47781249

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Look what they did! Libya chaos leaves city residents struggling for water.

Zintan was set to be part of Libya’s Great Man-Made River Project, a vast scheme to tap water from underground aquifers deep in the Sahara desert, purify it and transport it north.

But the city’s place on the project was abandoned after the 2011 ousting of dictator Moamer Kadhafi, leaving locals to rely on the old delivery system for water.

ZINTAN, Libya: Hundreds of blue pipes lay abandoned in Libya’s Zintan, leaving residents struggling to get enough water after the 2011 revolution halted their spot on the world’s largest irrigation project.

“We have nothing in Zintan,“ said Al-Sid Chanta, a trucker who collects water supplied from a reservoir to deliver to residents’ homes.

Without the pipes in place to channel water directly to the city, he makes the trip eight times a day just to meet people’s basic needs.

“The (public) services are very poor,“ said Chanta, who estimated each family needs around 40,000 litres of water a month.

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