Video: NASA's Messenger robot orbits Mercury

Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 16:30 in Astronomy & Space

After a six-and-a-half year journey, the Messenger becomes the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury. Jeff Glor reports.

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