Thirty-five years after its launch into space, NASA will talk about the latest findings of the spacecraft that has traveled farther than anything ever built on Monday.
NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Monday, Dec. 3, to discuss the latest findings and travels of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, according to the Sacramento Bee.
The announcement of the Monday press conference was posted on NASA's web site.
Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 have been speeding through the outer reaches of the solar system, sending back what NASA called "unprecedented data" regarding the bubble of charged particles around Earth's sun.
Both Voyagers 1 and 2 were launched in 1977 and have traveled farther from Earth than any other spacecraft.
Both spacecrafts are currently in what is known as the "Heliosheath", or the outermost layer of the heliosphere where the solar wind is slowed thanks to the pressure of interstellar gas. Voyagers 1 and 2 are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network.
Their primary mission was to explore Jupiter and Saturn. But the mission was extended after the spacecrafts made several discoveries on both planets, including active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io and intricacies of Saturn's rings.
Voyager 2 went on to explore Uranus and Neptune, and is still the only spacecraft to have visited those outer planets.
"The adventurers' current mission, the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM), will explore the outermost edge of the Sun's domain. And beyond," NASA writes.
Audio and visuals of the event will be streamed live online at: https://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio and https://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2.
Visuals will be available at the start of the event at: https://go.nasa.gov/NASA-AGU-Voyager.
For more information about the Voyager mission, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/voyager
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