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Fun fact: We're
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's leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system - and we apply that same creativity and determination to Halloween! Here's how we celebrated 🥳 (Did you know that JPL was founded on Halloween 86 years ago?)
About six people are in costumes as the James Webb Space Telescope. One person is in a black leotard and stands at the bottom of three steps. The person has a silver triangular shape around their hips with a gold honeycomb shape behind their head. They have wires coming from the honeycomb to the front of their face to form a point. There is a person on the second step toward the left with a black shirt, gray pants and a honeycomb symbol on the shirt. He is wearing sunglasses and a silver cape. To the right is a person in a white astronaut suit and he is holding one side of a larger honeycomb shape. Four people stand behind the honeycomb shape in all black and stand together at the top of the stairs to form the full gold honeycomb shape. They are all outside with small brown and green trees behind them.
Pumpkins are used to recreate the scene of the Ingenuity helicopter taking photos of the Entry, Descent and Landing gear from the Perseverance rover landing. The background shows a reddish hill that is supposed to be Mars. On a large table is a smashed white pumpkin, which branches off in a flower shape to resemble the aeroshell that crashed to the ground. Wires connect the smashed pumpkin to a white and red-striped cloth that resembles a parachute. On a clear stand is a small orange pumpkin that resembles the Ingenuity helicopter. It has moving rotors on the top and faces the smashed pumpkin area. The image is dimly lit and the ground is lined with yellow lights and then cinnamon to resemble Martian dirt.
A woman is standing outside in a Carl Sagan costume. The woman has aviator sunglasses on and a wig that is coifed, brown and fluffy. She is in a brown jacket that comes down just above her thighs. She is in black pants and a red turtleneck shirt. She is holding a golden record picture and "Cosmos," a book by Carl Sagan.
The image is dimly lit and shows a pumpkin sitting on a chair like a ragdoll. The pumpkin has floppy arms and stripped, stuffed legs that hang off a seat. There are brown, yellow and orange maple leaves on the ground beneath the feet. The pumpkin has triangles for eyes and a three-toothed smile. It is also wearing a black witch hat. LED string lights litter the scene and wrap around branch-like wires that are part of the area where the pumpkin is sitting.
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