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.
Already saw today’s javelin
#GoogleDoodle? You may want to look again, there’s something new roving above the audience. twitter.com/GoogleDoodles/…— Google Doodles (@GoogleDoodles) August 6, 2012
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…
That’s anything but the pits! Look again at the Aug 6
@googledoodles twitter.com/GoogleDoodles/…— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) August 6, 2012