Google Doodle Pays Subtle Homage To Mars Rover Curiosity

Unless you live on Mars (wait, that one doesn’t work here…under a rock!), you know by now that the rover Curiosity landed on Mars last night.

Google’s search engine doodle today subtly honored the rover, placing a small drawing of it above a javelin thrower in the Olympics.

The doodle originally featured just the javelin thrower with a blimp above him, but updated to show Curiosity.

Welcome to 2012, where Mars rovers tweet drawings of themselves on Google…