Imperial podcast: Measuring 'Marsquakes', Moroccan meteorites and Invictus Games

What is inside Mars? Professor Tom Pike discusses 2016 NASA mission to Mars and how he plans to measure 'Marsquakes'.

And staying with space related matters, Gail Wilson visits the 2014 Imperial SpaceLab to learn about the science and business of exploring space.

We also hear from gold medal winning athlete and bioengineer Dave Henson about his recent success at the inaugural Invictus Games.

The podcast is presented by Gareth Mitchell, a lecturer on Imperial's Science Communication MSc course and the presenter of Click Radio on the BBC World Service, with contributions from our roaming reporters from the Research Communications group.

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News: Future estimates on cases of the deadly Ebola disease and an introduction to the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis, a new research hub set up to help understand and prevent financial crises.

Measuring quakes on Mars: Colin Smith speaks to Professor Tom Pike about an upcoming 2016 mission to Mars and his involvement in building seismometers to detect ‘Marsquakes’ and understand the seismic activity of the red planet.

Update from Imperial SpaceLab 2014: Imperial SpaceLab 2014 was the College’s 2nd annual space science conference. Gail Wilson chats to researchers about moon craters, meteorites from Morocco, and how space satellites could help improve UK rail networks.

GB captain Dave Henson talks about 2014 Invictus Games: Medal-winning student Dave Henson who competed in the 2014 Invictus Games talks to Colin Smith about going for gold and how losing both his legs while serving as a soldier in Afghanistan in 2011 has inspired his research developing the world’s first implantable knee joint.