It’s Earth Day, And Google Created A New Doodle To Celebrate The Occasion

Hot on the heels of a long Easter weekend, we’re celebrating Earth Day on April 22. This event may fly under the radar on most of our calendars, but not at Google. The company has kept up a longstanding tradition of celebrating red letter days with Google Doodles — artwork that replaces the company’s logo on the search landing and results pages. To celebrate Earth Day this year, the tech titan has done something different by assembling a collection of aerial imagery that’s equal parts fascinating, and surprisingly, legible.

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Doodles started as an out-of-office reminder from Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, but quickly gained traction as an entertaining and globally visible commemoration of important events. To celebrate Earth Day this year, Google has collected six aerial photos of the surface of the Earth, each resembling letter forms that spell out the company’s name. This has been the theme with all previous doodles too, but it’s different when nature is the one making the art.

All sourced from Google Earth

Never knew nature could spell

Source: Google

The Doodle’s first letter, G, is a shot of the ring-shaped coral reef formations in the Maldives, called atolls. The teal blue lagoon with an arcing tropical island surrounded by the ocean creates a striking contrast that looks like an uppercase G in this context. The first O in Google is created using an image of the alpine landscape in the French Alps while the second O is actually the St. Lawrence River looping meandering through Côte-Nord in Quebec.

Meanwhile, the second G in Google is formed using an aerial shot of the riverine section of a semi-arid region in the Mendoza province of western Argentina. The semblance of the letter L is originally a shot of the corner of the Colorado Plateau formed by the Colorado River in Southeastern Utah. Google’s E is formed by a remote inland section of west New South Wales in Australia where the generally flat land dotted with plants like spinifex and eucalyptus seem to form a lowercase E.

With this year’s Earth Day Doodle, the search giant has surely hit all the checkboxes — images from all around the world, showing off the natural formations of the Earth, and depicting the sheer diversity of landscapes. This isn’t a conventional artist-made doodle but a creation of the Earth itself, making the unique arrangement of photos stand out from prior doodles.