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Recently nasa's messenger mission. and this one, bepicolombo, is designed to answer a lot of the questions raised by that messenger mission. so we mentioned in the introduction there the spacecraft is shooting past mercury. it is not actually landing on the planet, is it? what are we watching for in the coming hours? well, the main thing that this flyby is supposed to accomplish is to alter the orbit, alter the trajectory of the spacecraft, as it goes around the sun. they would love to be able to enter orbit right now, because that's after all the goal of this mission — to orbit mercury for ...

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There have only been two previous missions to mercury, one a long time ago, mariner 10, and then more recently nasa's messenger mission. and this one, bepicolombo, is designed to answer a lot of the questions raised by that messenger mission. so we mentioned in the introduction there the spacecraft is shooting past mercury. it is not actually landing on the planet, is it? what are we watching for in the coming hours? well, the main thing that this flyby is supposed to accomplish is to alter the orbit, alter the trajectory of the spacecraft, as it goes around the sun. they would love to be able...

And this one, bepicolombo, is designed to answer a lot of questions raised by the messenger mission. we mentioned in the introduction the spacecraft is shooting past mercury. it is not actually landing on the planet. what are we watching for in the coming hours? well, the main thing that this flyby is supposed to accomplish is to alter the orbit, alter the trajectory of the spacecraft, as it goes around the sun. they would love to be able to enter orbit right now, because that's after all the goal of this mission — to orbit mercury for a couple of years and gather lots of science data. but i...

Billed for a rescue? >> that has happened before, you're right. jenna: well the name mercury means messenger to the gods and right now we're awaiting details about the planet mercury from nasa's spacecraft appropriately named messenger. it was been orbiting the small planet since last march. nasa will hold a news conference with its findings. phil keating live from the miami bureau with there. phil? >> reporter: nasa is very excited about the 2:00 eastern time announcement about the polar regions about the planet closest tote sun. that is the terrestrial rock planet of mercury. scientists on e...