Maia Weinstock's first LEGO minifigure was of her friend Carolyn Porco, team leader of the imaging team on the Cassini mission. The minifigure was a success, and Maia was off and running making minigures of other contemporary scientists. Check out Carolyn Porco's TED talk on Flying to Saturn in either LEGO format or in the original!
Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco - or rather, her Lego doppelgänger - takes you on a fascinating journey with Cassini-Huygens, a space mission investigating Saturn and its intriguing moons. This stop-motion animation is a recreation of Porco's real-life presentation from the 2007 TED conference. Behind the scenes: http://maiaw.com/behind_the_scenes.html (Maia Weinstock, 2010)
http://www.ted.com Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, which seems to shoot jets of ice.
