American space agency NASA recently said its Cassini spacecraft has recently completed a final close flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The craft has even captured some breathtaking images of the moon from a distance.

As per NASA officials, during the flyby the craft was about 3,106 miles away from the moon’s surface. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) project scientist Linda Spiker said in a statement n NASA website that they have bid a final goodbye to the amazing ice world.

“Cassini has made so many breathtaking discoveries about Enceladus, yet so much more remains to be done to answer that pivotal question, ‘Does this tiny ocean world harbor life?”, Spiker said.

Although a lot more has to be known about the alien world, NASA considers this flyby as a success. The agency said they have been successful in placing a capstone on an incredible decade of studying one of the most intriguing bodies in our solar system.

Another photo captured by Cassini on August 18 from a distance of 85,000 miles of Enceladus also revealed some interesting data about Saturn’s moon.

NASA said that Cassini will keep on monitoring the activities on Enceladus from a distance till the end of its mission in September 2017. Any future encounters of Cassini with Enceladus will be much further away. In fact, it will be more than four times farther than its latest encounter, the agency said. After receiving the images, scientists are now busy examining them to better understand the icy world.