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Morning everyone, Leah here with today's Newsround. | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
First, in a few hours' time, one of the most ground-breaking, | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
epic space missions of our time, will reach its grand finale. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
After launching in 2004, it took Rosetta ten years to catch | :00:21. | :00:50. | |
After such a long journey, you'd hope things wouldn't | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
In 2014, Rosetta tried to attach a special space probe called | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
But instead, it bounced a few times and got stuck | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
Bad news for a space probe that's powered by sunlight. | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
With no sunlight, Philae's batteries ran out after just three days. | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
In 2015, Philae woke up from hibernation as the comet it's | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
on got nearer to the sun and sent back lots of information to Earth. | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
And in 2016, the location of Philae was discovered. | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
It was wedged in a dark crack on the comet. | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
While all this has been happening, the Rosetta spacecraft was orbiting | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
around the comet but now its journey is coming to an end with a bang. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Rosetta will join Philae by crashing into the surface of the comet, | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
sending lots more info back to Earth in the process, | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
Well, Rosetta's had quite a journey and joining me now to talk | :02:05. | :02:14. | |
about it is space expert, Dr Sarah Crowther. | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
Thank you for joining us. Such an important day-to-day. What will | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
Rosetta teach us? It has been a static mission where we have learned | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
a lot about comets and how they behave. It was ground-breaking | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
because Rosetta was the first spacecraft to orbit the comet and | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
the Philae lander was the first to land on a comet. They have taken | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
hundreds of pictures, analyse the dust on the comet so we have learned | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
a lot about what they are made of and how they behave. Why does it | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
have to end now? It is a shame but the comet is moving away from the | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
sun and the spacecraft is powered by the Sun said there is not enough | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
energy to keep it going. So they will crash it into the surface this | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
morning and as it gets close to the surface, we will get close up photos | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
of the surface and we will be able to take data as well. So exciting | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
when we get those pictures. Thank you for joining us! | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
Next, Syria used to be a country where children lived normal lives, | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
going to school, playing with friends and | :03:24. | :03:24. | |
That isn't possible any more because of the war that's | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Now in the country's biggest city, Aleppo, there are signs that it | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
For more than five years, Syria has been at war. | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
Different groups are fighting for power and control | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
Meanwhile millions of Syrians have been forced to leave the country | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
and find a safer place to live, but some families have had no choice | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
Around four million people live in Aleppo today. | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
Right now, Aleppo is split with a number of groups controlling | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
different parts of the city and there's awful fighting | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
The BBC's James Longman is in Lebanon, a country next | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
to Syria, he's been reporting on the crisis in the area. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
You can see how many buildings have been destroyed over | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
People living here have been cut off from food, from medicine, | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
So life has been very, very difficult. | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
As you can see from these pictures, much of Aleppo has been destroyed. | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
Bombs have been dropped onto streets, killing | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
people and leaving behind these large craters. | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Many children are the victims of this conflict. | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
Syrians tend to have large families and there are lots of children | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
Some say that maybe half of all the people who have been | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
killed or injured in Syria, in eastern Aleppo, are children. | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Parts of the city have no clean water and vital supplies like food | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
Still these children are trying to get by and doing what they can | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
Some say compared to five years ago, the city is hardly recognisable. | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
And no one knows when the conflict will come to an end. | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
And if anything in the news upsets you there's lots of advice | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
That's also where you'll find our full guide to what's | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
That's all from me, Newsround's back at 4:20pm this afternoon. | :05:49. | :05:53. |