The Cassini interplanetary traveler whizzed at 40,000 miles an hour relative speed past a moon of Saturn called Enceladus, skimming just 30 miles above the lunar surface, NASA announced. A signal from Cassini was picked up by the Deep Space Network station in Canberra, Australia, and relayed to the Cassini mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. During the flyby, Cassini focused its cameras and other remote sensing instruments on Enceladus with an emphasis on its south…
Cassini Spacecraft Zips To Close Encounter With Saturnian Moon
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