See It: NASA Engineers Carved Out-of-this-world Pumpkins for Halloween

Every Halloween, the engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory raise their pumpkin-carving to new heights with a jack-o’-lantern contest.

During the contest, NASA’s brightest brains put forth heavily engineered pumpkins to be judged appropriately.

Here’s a look at some of this year’s best entries. (Click the arrows in the Instagram posts to see more.)

Angry-about-email-migration Pumpkin #NASAPumpkin pic.twitter.com/0HeRN8jdkj

— Aaron Yazzie (@YazzieSays) October 29, 2018

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Here's what happens when @NASA has a pumpkin-carving contest. Check out our story or click the link in our bio for tips on how to carve a pumpkin like a NASA engineer. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/create-a-halloween-pumpkin-like-a-nasa-engineer/ Check back soon for the results of our 2018 contest. #NASApumpkin 🎃 #jackolantern #pumpkin #halloween #tech #technology #fun #diy

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Charlie Brown on Mars #NASAPumpkin pic.twitter.com/wfEKRV0v7w

— Aaron Yazzie (@YazzieSays) October 29, 2018

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What happened when we let our engineers loose on pumpkins for JPL’s seventh annual carving contest? Swipe through the results and watch the full coverage in our story ↑ #NASA #NASApumpkin #NASAJPL #JPL #engineering #robotics #pumpkin #pumpkins #carving #halloween #jackolantern #omgrobots

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And the best for last: our team’s pumpkin! The Planetary Sample Acquisition submarine pumpkin is on Europa, and has accidentally drilled through last year’s winning pumpkin…. oops 🙊! #NASAPumpkin pic.twitter.com/sYkKX2wAUn

— Aaron Yazzie (@YazzieSays) October 29, 2018

Check out even more photos on NASA’s Flicker account.