Hey. What's up? Amelia here. Let's check out what's making news.
People have been working around the clock to save hundreds of whales
that have been stranded off the west coast of Tasmania.
All up, about 470 whales have been beached -
the largest number recorded in the state's history.
CALE: Off the coast of Tasmania,
there's a massive rescue mission underway.
MAN: Everyone's working super hard, as you can imagine.
We've got people in the water with stressed animals,
it's cold, it's wet, it's a slog.
When I came down yesterday, I thought it's probably 20 or 30,
but there was just hundreds of them.
More than 450 stranded pilot whales have now been discovered
across a couple of different locations.
And unfortunately, many have died.
So, how do these natural-born swimmers wind up on the shore?
Whale strandings are a bit of a mystery.
We don't exactly know why whales strand, but they unfortunately,
when they swim into shallow waters, will become stuck on the ground.
Dr Vanessa Pirotta is a whale expert,
and she says there are a few different theories.
Maybe they were looking at a certain area
and became lost. Misadventure.
Some of them might have had an error in their echolocation,
or biological sonar.
Or maybe there was a sick individual that led them astray
and as a result, the entire pod followed.
Rescuers are working super hard to save the ones they can,
either by guiding them with boats or towing them back out to sea,
and the next few days are going to be a race against time
to try and save as many of these beautiful creatures as possible.
Now for some good COVID news.
Travelling interstate is going to get a bit easier
as case numbers around the country keep going down.
South Australia is reopening its border with New South Wales
at midnight tonight because the eastern state has had two weeks
of no new community transmissions.
Queensland is also opening up to some parts of New South Wales.
And from Friday, people in the ACT
will be allowed to head to Queensland without quarantining.
NASA has announced new details
about its plan to head back to the moon in 2024.
Nat has the scoop.
We're back. Moon landing two.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there have been more than two moon landings.
Oh, OK. Moon landing three!
Uh, I think it's more that three.
NAT: Humans have been to the moon quite a few times -
six times, to be exact.
All 12 of the people who have set foot on it so far
have been sent by the US's space agency, NASA,
and all 12 of them have been men.
But that was nearly 50 years ago
and now NASA says it wants to go back
and it's determined to land the first woman on the moon, too.
They're calling it the Artemis plan.
Basically, they want to send astronauts back to the moon by 2024
and by the end of the decade, establish a base camp
so that astronauts can live there.
They're already testing out new boosters
and designing spacesuits.
In 2021, they'll launch phase one of Artemis,
which won't have people on board.
Then in 2023, they'll launch phase two, which WILL have people on board,
but they won't set foot on the moon.
And finally, in 2024, phase three
will see astronauts back on the surface of the moon.
Together with robots and rovers,
astronauts will also be on the hunt for resources, like water,
that could be turned into oxygen and fuel.
Yeah. Come to think of it, I'm really thirsty. Water would be good.
Now it's time to travel through time to another time
where things are both older and newer and sometimes very mixed up.
It's:
1940s aeroplanes soaring high above London.
Hmm! We must have gone back in time to World War Two,
or at least these pilots did,
as they flew historic Spitfires across the city skyline in 2020
to mark the famous military campaign The Battle Of Britain.
Now let's go WAY back - about 100 million years -
to when this creature roamed the earth.
Scientists at Portsmouth Uni
have discovered the huge 15-metre-long Spinosaurus -
made famous by its appearance in Jurassic Park 3 -
wasn't actually a land-only dinosaur.
It was a river dweller.
They found hundreds of Spinosaurus teeth in the old riverbeds
of the Sahara Desert.
And forget the past, let's step forward into the future
where humans live to serve their master dogs,
who like to visit museums in their spare time.
There's also a chance it may be a present-day exhibit in London
dedicated to futuristic doggy designs.
What a journey that was!
And now we're all out of time, so we'll catch you tomorrow.
See you then.