# Google Doodle commemorating Water on Mars **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 29, 2015, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-commemorating-water-on-mars/732938 "2015-09-29T11:57:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-commemorating-water-on-mars/732938/1 "2015-09-29T11:57:23Z")
Today’s Google Doodle (Sept 29 2015) was clearly put together in a hurry to commemorate NASA’s announcement of solid evidence for liquid water on Mars: > **[Google](https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl)** > > Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-commemorating-water-on-mars/732938/2 "2015-09-29T13:06:50Z")
I actually noticed that last night. So they put it together in a matter of hours. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-commemorating-water-on-mars/732938/3 "2015-09-29T13:52:52Z")
My Google Doodle is birthday cake. I’ll have to check it out from some other account 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-commemorating-water-on-mars/732938/4 "2015-09-29T16:46:09Z")
Didn’t we already know that there was water on Mars? I mean, I guess I’m probably wrong, but I thought that was established ages ago. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-commemorating-water-on-mars/732938/5 "2015-09-29T16:56:59Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > Didn’t we already know that there was water on Mars? I mean, I guess I’m probably wrong, but I thought that was established ages ago. Well, some of us have known about it since 2009…[The Waters of Mars - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waters_of_Mars) :p;) ---
**Author:** ![TheSeaOtter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@TheSeaOtter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSeaOtter)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-commemorating-water-on-mars/732938/6 "2015-09-29T17:01:10Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > Didn’t we already know that there was water on Mars? I mean, I guess I’m probably wrong, but I thought that was established ages ago. My understanding is that we knew there was _ice_ on Mars (the poles are covered with it), and that it used to be liquid long ago, but this is the first conclusive evidence of _current, liquid, flowing_ water. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-commemorating-water-on-mars/732938/7 "2015-10-02T23:38:44Z")
For those who missed it, here’s [Google’s own doodle blog](https://www.google.com/doodles/evidence-of-water-found-on-mars), which includes both the doodle and the explanation for why they did it. It’s just so cuuuute! Edit: and it was probably so quick because they just made a GIF, rather than using HTML5. I had assumed it only worked when you hovered your mouse over it, but apparently, that’s just a delay.