Dr Gail Iles is a Senior Lecturer of Physics in the School of Science at RMIT University and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics. Dr Illes joined the program to discuss The Ingenuity Helicopter – an attempt by NASA to conduct powered flight on another planet for the first time. “Martian atmosphere is 1/100 of Earths’, meaning the Ingenuity Helicopter needs 100 times more lift to fly,” Dr Illes said. “Flying on Mars would be like flying at 100,000 ft (30km) on Earth.”