As it turns out, it takes a good deal of planning, patience and, well, Perseverance, to create a cake in the shape of a NASA Mars rover.
Just ask celebrity chef Duff Goldman, whose pastry-formed model of the space agency's six-wheeled Perseverance rover made its debut Friday night (Nov. 3) at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
"You really have to do a little bit of engineering here," said Goldman in an interview with collectSPACE.com. "Because we posed it so its front tires were up on rocks, now you're asking the cake to do something that it's not really designed to do, which is to live on a diagonal. So, when you are building something like this, which you know isn't going to be flat and level, you just have to build in a little extra armature to make sure it doesn't fall apart."
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