Thought some of you might find this kind of cool. JPL is doing a Rose Parade float.

For everyone who's not familiar with this event, the Rose Parade is a long-standing New Year's Day tradition here in Los Angeles, preceding the national college football (US-type) championship game, the Rose Bowl. One interesting characteristic of the floats is that they have to be made mostly of flowers and/or vegetable materials, and JPL made some pretty amazing things for theirs, which celebrates 50 years of UMSF...


http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-153

And at the JPL store: http://www.bookstore.caltech.edu/jpllab/sh...catalog%5Fid=34

Without the rocket sitting atop its flame plume, my first
guess was that JPL was featuring an Io volcano on its
float.