We catch up with Imperial mission scientist Chris Carr as the Rosetta spacecraft ends its 10-year mission by crashing into the surface of comet 67P.

Space

Rosetta's last mission - extended interview

On 7 January 2014, the Sun's surface erupted with an unusually large explosion, called coronal mass ejection (CME), with NOAA releasing a significant false alarm geomagnetic storm at Earth. Credit: Dr Neel Savani / Imperial College London

Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) 7 January 2014

Dr Richard Ghail and Dr Philippa Mason make the case for further exploration of Venus and outline their plans for a new mission. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 3 December 2014)

Earth’s unloved neighbour

Could you explain the long and complicated story of our universe using only the most common thousand words in the English language? In his first book 'The Edge of the Sky Dr Roberto Trotta does exactly that.

Dr Roberto Trotta explains ‘All you need to know about All-There-Is’

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. (Imperial Podcast 1 October 2014 2/4)

Measuring quakes on Mars

Gail Wilson chats to researchers about moon craters, meteorites from Morocco, and how space satellites could help improve UK rail networks. (Imperial Podcast 1 October 2014 3/4)

Update from Imperial SpaceLab 2014

Using the oldest light to build the newest theories about the universe. The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Andrew Jaffe

The random universe

Join curator of meteorites at the Natural History Museum, Dr Caroline Smith and Imperial College Astrobiologist Dr Zita Martins to find out how meteorites can help to answer fundamental questions.

Meteorites: A journey through space and time

Dark energy and dark matter pervade the Universe. Professor Alan Heavens discusses how we find their properties and test whether Einstein's gravity theory works.

Dark Energy : Dark Matter : Dark Gravity

Chris Carr discusses his involvement in the European Space Agency Rosetta mission, and tells us why it is so important to study comets. (Extract 2 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 5 February 2014)

Awaking Rosetta

In this audio interview, Gail Wilson speaks to Chris Carr about Rosetta's voyage of discovery and his involvement in this European Space Agency mission.

Wake up Rosetta! Chris Carr discusses ESA space mission

Professor Tim Sumner (Physics) explains how the European Space Agency plans to detect gravitational waves, one of the most elusive phenomena in astronomy. (Extract 2 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 15 January 2014)

eLISA mission

Dr Jonathan Eastwood explains how Nasa are planning to launch a spacecraft propelled by solar pressure. (Extract 4 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 28 August 2013)

Sailing on sunlight

Dr Simon Foster on how he and other Imperial researchers are plotting to send astronauts to Mars. (Extract 4 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 19 June 2013)

Mission to Mars

Physicist Professor Tim Horbury explains the science behind space plasmas and why understanding turbulence is so important.

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