Go 11.16 million miles a minute for 124 minutes

[Truth]

Then you would be where Spacecraft Cassini Entered Saturn's Orbit

That's also how long it takes for messages traveling at the speed of to reach Cassini
which took 6.6 years to make the trip after
being launched on October 15, 1997

PASADENA, Calif. - The international Cassini spacecraft threaded a gap between two
of Saturn's dazzling rings late Wednesday and entered orbit around the giant
planet, completing one of the mission's most critical maneuvers more than 900
million miles from Earth.

Mission control at NASA (news - web sites)'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in
cheers shortly before 9 p.m. when a radio signal indicated Cassini had been
captured by Saturn.

Propulsion engineer and mission commentator Todd Barber said the announcement
came earlier than predicted because the signal had been tracked so well. Cassini's
engine was to continue burning for another 12 minutes or so.

The maneuver, which brought Cassini within 12,500 miles of Saturn's cloud tops,
came after two decades of work by scientists in 18 nations.

Way to go Carl Cassini made it.

Carl Sagan (astronomer/writer) Nov.1934-Dec.1996

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&e=5&u=/ap/20040701/ap_on_sc/saturn_cassini

 

[Mermaid02]

That's really cool- it will be interesting to see what it sends back.

 

[Truth]

Here's one of the approach

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Cassini's Phoebe flyby
A dark outer moon of Saturn reveals its icy nature.

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<img width="400"src=http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/media/ir/2004/196_206_1.jpg>

<img width="400"src=http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/media/ir/2004/193_203_1.jpg>