The folks at the California Institute of Technology have built another Mars rover, but this one will never get to leave Earth. Not surprising, really, since it's made of gingerbread.
I first learned about the new rover from my colleague Nina Gregory at NPR West, who spotted it in LA Weekly's restaurant . Caltech runs NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and JPL runs that other rover called Curiosity that is on the red planet, and all about it.
So as a kind of culinary homage to his colleagues, the head chef at the Caltech faculty club made a gingerbread rover replica, decorated with pinwheel cookies, gumdrops, candy canes and M&Ms. (Here's the , for comparison.)
The gingerbread rover sits on a rock-strewn platform, and to keep it company, there's Yoda, Darth Vader, Buzz Lightyear and a three-eyed Martian nearby. At least I think it's a Martian. We'll have to wait for one of NASA's rovers to take a picture of a Martian to be sure.
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